But Louisa neither looked at them nor spoke to Mary Isabel . Mary Isabel tossed her head and went to her own room . Her draught of freedom had stimulated her , and she did not mind Louisa 's attitude half as much as she would have expected . She read Tom 's letter over again to fortify herself and then she dressed her hair in a fashion she had seen that day in town and pulled out all the little curls on her forehead . The next day she took the silver-grey silk to the Latimer dressmaker and picked out a fashionable design for it . When the silk dress came home , Louisa , who had thawed out somewhat in the meantime , unbent sufficiently to remark that it fitted very well . `` I am going to wear it to the induction tomorrow , '' Mary Isabel said , boldly to all appearances , quakingly in reality . 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 XXXXX her sister incredulously .
For If as at before in of over that to