She knew that she was throwing down the gauntlet for good and all . If she could assert and maintain her independence in this matter Louisa 's power would be broken forever . * * * * * Twelve years before this , the previously mentioned schism had broken out in the Latimer church . The minister had sided with the faction which Louisa Irving opposed . She had promptly ceased going to his church and withdrew all financial support . She paid to the Marwood church , fifteen miles away , and occasionally she hired a team and drove over there to service . But she never entered the Latimer church again nor allowed Mary Isabel to do so . For that matter , Mary Isabel did not wish to go . She had resented the minister 's attitude almost as bitterly as Louisa . But when Mr. Moody accepted a call elsewhere Mary Isabel hoped that she and Louisa might return to their old church home . Possibly they might have done so had not the congregation called the young , newly fledged James Anderson . Mary Isabel would not have cared for this , but Louisa sternly said that neither she nor any of hers should ever darken the doors of a church where the nephew of Martin Hamilton preached . Mary Isabel had regretfully acquiesced at the time , but now she had made up her mind to go to church and she meant to begin with the induction service . Louisa stared at her sister incredulously . `` Have you taken complete leave of your senses , Mary Isabel ? '' `` No . I 've just come to them , '' retorted Mary Isabel recklessly , gripping a chair-back desperately so that Louisa should not see how she was trembling . `` It is all foolishness to keep away from church just because of an old grudge . I 'm tired of staying home Sundays or driving fifteen miles to Marwood to hear poor old Mr. Grattan . Everybody says Mr. Anderson is a splendid young man and an excellent preacher , and I 'm going to attend his services regularly . ''
Louisa had taken Mary Isabel 's first defiance XXXXX icy disdain .
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