Incidentally , Frances had come to know the young minister , with his lofty ideals and earnest efforts , very well . He had got into a ridiculous habit of going to her -- her , Frances Farquhar ! -- for advice in many perplexities . Frances had nursed Jacky Hart and talked temperance to his father and read tracts to Aunt Clorinda and started a reading circle among the factory girls and fitted out all the little Jarboes with dresses and coaxed the shore children to go to school and patched up a feud between two ` longshore families and done a hundred other things of a similar nature . Aunt Eleanor said nothing , as was her wise wont , but she talked it over with Margaret Ann Peabody , and agreed with that model domestic when she said : `` Work 'll keep folks out of trouble and help 'em out of it when they are in . Just as long as that girl brooded over her own worries and did n't think of anyone but herself she was miserable . But as soon as she found other folks were unhappy , too , and tried to help 'em out a bit , she helped herself most of all . She 's getting fat and rosy , and it is plain to be seen that the minister thinks there is n't the like of her on this planet . '' One night Frances told Corona all about Holcomb . Elliott Sherwood was away , and Frances had gone up to stay all night with Corona at the manse . They were sitting in the moonlit gloom of Corona 's room , and Frances felt confidential . She had expected to feel badly and cry a little while she told it . But she did not , and before she was half through , it did not seem as if it were worth telling after all . Corona was deeply sympathetic . She did not say a great deal , but what she did say put Frances on better terms with herself . `` Oh , I shall get over it , '' the latter declared finally . `` Once I thought I never would -- but the truth is , I 'm getting over it now . I 'm very glad -- but I 'm horribly ashamed , too , to find myself so fickle . '' `` I do n't think you are fickle , Frances , '' said Corona gravely , `` because I do n't think you ever really loved that man at all . You only imagined you did .
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