` Relict ' is a word I hate , '' said the Story Girl . `` It sounds so much like relic . Relict means just the same as widow , only a man can be a relict , too . '' `` Great-Grandmother seemed to run short of rhymes at the last of the epitaph , '' commented Dan . `` Finding rhymes is n't as easy as you might think , '' avowed Peter , out of his own experience . `` I think Grandmother King intended the last of the epitaph to be in blank verse , '' said Felicity with dignity . There was still only a sprinkling of people in the church when we went in and took our places in the old-fashioned , square King pew . We had just got comfortably settled when Felicity said in an agitated whisper , `` Here is Peg Bowen ! '' We all stared at Peg , who was pacing composedly up the aisle . We might be excused for so doing , for seldom were the decorous aisles of Carlisle church invaded by such a figure . Peg was dressed in her usual short drugget skirt , rather worn and frayed around the bottom , and a waist of brilliant turkey red calico . She wore no hat , and her grizzled black hair streamed in elf locks over her shoulders . Face , arms and feet were bare -- and face , arms and feet were liberally powdered with FLOUR . Certainly no one who saw Peg that night could ever forget the apparition . Peg 's black eyes , in which shone a more than usually wild and fitful light , roved scrutinizingly over the church , then settled on our pew . `` She 's coming here , '' whispered Felicity in horror . `` Ca n't we spread out and make her think the pew is full ? '' But the manoeuvre was too late . The only result was that Felicity and the Story Girl in moving over left a vacant space between them and Peg promptly plumped down in it . `` Well , I 'm here , '' she remarked aloud .
`` I did say once I 'd never darken the door of Carlisle church again , but what that boy there '' -- nodding at Peter -- `` XXXXX last winter set me thinking , and I concluded maybe I 'd better come once in a while , to be on the safe side . ''
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