Aunt Elizabeth, trembling all over, refused either to advance or retreat.

"Will you please," said Maggie very firmly to a beautifully clothed young man with hair like a looking-glass, "show us the way to the street ?" He very kindly showed them, and it was not until they were in the homeward omnibus that Aunt Elizabeth discovered that she had bought nothing at all.
Nevertheless, although Maggie collected but little interesting detail from these occasions, she did gather a fine general impression of whirling movement and adventure.

One day she would plunge into it--meanwhile it was better that she should move slowly and assemble gradual impressions.

The solid caution that was mingled in her nature with passionate feeling and enthusiasm taught her admirable wisdom.
Aunt Anne, it seemed, never moved beyond the small radius of her home and the Chapel.

She attended continually Bible-meetings, prayer-meetings, Chapel services.