She then would "lose her temper" so much to her own surprise that
she at once decided that some one else must be responsible. A few
days after her return she decided that she "must not let these
things go," so she told Maggie that she would attend the Committee
of Old Women's Comforts and be responsible for the Choir practice.
But on her return to these functions she found that she was bored
and tired and cross; they were really intolerable, she had been
doing them for years and years and years. It was too bad that Maggie
should suffer her to take them on her shoulders. What did Maggie
think she was a clergyman's wife for? Did Maggie imagine that there
were no responsibilities attached to her position?
Grace did not say these things, but she thought them. She did not of
course admit to herself that she wanted Maggie both to go and not to
go. She simply knew that there was a "grievance" and Maggie was
responsible for it. But at present she was silent . . .
The next factor in the rapidly developing situation was Mr. Toms.
One day early in April Maggie went for a little walk by herself
along the lane that led to Marsden Wood.
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