He talked to her as he might have done to Corona , and seemed utterly oblivious of the fact that her profile was classic and her eyes delicious . His indifference piqued Frances a little in spite of her murdered heart . Well , if there was anything she could do she might as well do it , she told him briefly , and he , with equal brevity , gave her directions for finding some old lady who lived on the Elm Creek road and to whom Corona had read tracts . `` Tracts are a mild dissipation of Aunt Clorinda 's , '' he said . `` She fairly revels in them . She is half blind and has missed Corona very much . '' There were other matters also -- a dozen or so of factory girls who needed to be looked after and a family of ragged children to be clothed . Frances , in some dismay , found herself pledged to help in all directions , and then ways and means had to be discussed . The long , wet road , sprinkled with houses , from whose windows people were peering to see `` what girl the minister was driving , '' seemed very short . Frances did not know it , but Elliott Sherwood drove a full mile out of his way that morning to take her home , and risked being late for a very important appointment -- from which it may be inferred that he was not quite so blind to the beautiful as he had seemed . Frances went through the rain that afternoon and read tracts to Aunt Clorinda . She was so dreadfully tired that night that she forgot to cry , and slept well and soundly . In the morning she went to church for the first time since coming to Windy Meadows . It did not seem civil not to go to hear a man preach when she had gone slumming with his sister and expected to assist him with his difficulties over factory girls . She was surprised at Elliott Sherwood 's sermon , and mentally wondered why such a man had been allowed to remain for four years in a little country pulpit . Later on Aunt Eleanor told her it was for his health . `` He was not strong when he left college , so he came here . But he is as well as ever now , and I expect he will soon be gobbled up by some of your city churches . He preached in Castle Street church last winter , and I believe they were delighted with him . '' This was all of a month later .
During XXXXX time Frances thought that she must have been re-created , so far was her old self left behind .
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