Even when Mrs.
Field made no expression of anxiety, there was a covert distress about her which seemed to enervate the atmosphere, and hinder the girl in the fight she was making against her own weakness.

Lois had a feeling that if nobody would look at her nor speak about her illness, she could get well quickly of herself.
As for Mrs.Field, she was no longer eager to attend meeting; she went rather than annoy Lois.

She was present at both the morning and afternoon services.

They still had two services in Green River.
Jane Field, sitting in her place in church through the long sermons, had a mental experience that was wholly new to her.

She looked at the white walls of the audience-room, the pulpit, the carpet, the pews.
She noted the familiar faces of the people in their Sunday gear, the green light stealing through the long blinds, and all these accustomed sights gave her a sense of awful strangeness and separation.