Don't you see Mrs.Drane coming ?" The next day Miriam and Ralph jogged into Thorbury.

Miriam, not wearing the teaberry gown, but having its spirit upon her, had planned to inquire of the grocer with whom she dealt, where she might find a woman such as she needed, but Ralph did not favor this.
"Let us first go and see Mrs.Tolbridge," he said.

"She is one of our first and best friends, and probably knows every woman in town, and if she doesn't, the doctor does." This last point had its effect upon Miriam.

She wanted to see Dr.
Tolbridge to ask if he could not stop in and quiet the mind of Cicely, who really wanted to see him about her work, but who did not like, as Miriam easily conjectured, to ask Ralph to send her to town.

Miriam wished to make things as pleasant as possible for Cicely, and Mrs.
Tolbridge had not, so far, meddled in the least with her concerns.