Well, she did it.
"Then, pretty quick after that, she began to get acquainted in the town.

Folks called, an' there was parties an' receptions where she met folks, an' they began to come here to the house, 'specially them students, an' two or three of them young, unmarried professors.

An' she began to go out a lot with them--skatin' an' sleigh-ridin' an' snowshoein'.
"Like it?
Of course she liked it! Who wouldn't?
Why, child, you never saw such a fuss as they made over your ma in them days.

She was all the rage; an' of course she liked it.

What woman wouldn't, that was gay an' lively an' young, an' had been so lonesome like your ma had?
But some other folks didn't like it.