"I have been writing, of course. And then other work connected with movements in which I am interested."
Old Miss's needles clicked again! "Unsexing women and unsettling the minds of working-people. I saw a piece in a paper. Preposterous! But it's just what Maria would have liked to have done."
Silence again; then Hagar leaned across and took up her grandmother's work. "What is it? An afghan? It's lovely soft wool."
"When," asked Old Miss, "are you going to marry—and whom?"
"I do not know, grandmother, that I am going to marry, or whom."
"You should have married Ralph.... All these years have you had any other offers?"
"Yes, grandmother."
"While you were with Medway?"
"Yes, grandmother."
"Have you had any since you set up in this remarkable way for yourself?"