Will you not sit nearer to the fire , Mrs. Marshall Elliott ? These November evenings are very chilly . '' `` Thank you , Susan , I 'm not cold . I called at the manse before I came here and got quite warm -- though I had to go to the kitchen to do it , for there was no fire anywhere else . The kitchen looked as if it had been stirred up with a stick , believe ME . Mr. Meredith was n't home . I could n't find out where he was , but I have an idea that he was up at the Wests ' . Do you know , Anne dearie , they say he has been going there frequently all the fall and people are beginning to think he is going to see Rosemary . '' `` He would get a very charming wife if he married Rosemary , '' said Anne , piling driftwood on the fire . `` She is one of the most delightful girls I 've ever known -- truly one of the race of Joseph . '' `` Ye -- s -- only she is an Episcopalian , '' said Miss Cornelia doubtfully . `` Of course , that is better than if she was a Methodist -- but I do think Mr. Meredith could find a good enough wife in his own denomination . However , very likely there is nothing in it . It 's only a month ago that I said to him , ` You ought to marry again , Mr. Meredith . ' He looked as shocked as if I had suggested something improper . ` My wife is in her grave , Mrs. Elliott , ' he said , in that gentle , saintly way of his . ' I suppose so , ' I said , ` or I would n't be advising you to marry again . ' Then he looked more shocked than ever . So I doubt if there is much in this Rosemary story . If a single minister calls twice at a house where there is a single woman all the gossips have it he is courting her . ''
`` It seems to me -- if I may presume to say so -- that Mr. Meredith is too shy XXXXX go courting a second wife , '' said Susan solemnly .
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