The next Sunday evening after service Mr. Sinclair arose hesitatingly . His face was flushed , and Alethea Craig always declared that he looked `` just plain everyday cross . '' He announced briefly that the session after due deliberation had concluded that Mrs. Cotterell might occupy the pulpit on the evening appointed for her address . The women all over the church smiled broadly . Frances Spenslow got up and went to the organ stool . The singing in the last hymn was good and hearty . Going down the steps after dismissal Mrs. Elder Knox caught the secretary of the Church Aid by the arm . `` I guess , '' she whispered anxiously , `` you 'd better call a special meeting of the Aids at my house tomorrow afternoon . If we 're to get that social over before haying begins we 've got to do some smart scurrying . '' The strike in the Putney church was over . The Unhappiness of Miss Farquhar Frances Farquhar was a beauty and was sometimes called a society butterfly by people who did n't know very much about it . Her father was wealthy and her mother came of an extremely blue-blooded family . Frances had been out for three years , and was a social favourite . Consequently , it may be wondered why she was unhappy . In plain English , Frances Farquhar had been jilted -- just a commonplace , everyday jilting ! She had been engaged to Paul Holcomb ; he was a very handsome fellow , somewhat too evidently aware of the fact , and Frances was very deeply in love with him -- or thought herself so , which at the time comes to pretty much the same thing . Everybody in her set knew of her engagement , and all her girl friends envied her , for Holcomb was a matrimonial catch . Then the crash came . Nobody outside the family knew exactly what did happen , but everybody knew that the Holcomb-Farquhar match was off , and everybody had a different story to account for it . The simple truth was that Holcomb was fickle and had fallen in love with another girl .
There was nothing of the man XXXXX him , and it did not matter to his sublimely selfish caddishness whether he broke Frances Farquhar 's heart or not .
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