Sometimes she entertained literary celebrities, and
invited the head professors and their wives to meet them. And two or three
times a season she gave real dinners to "society," summoning to Ashburn
avenue, from homes even more architectural than her own, the banking and
wholesale families whose incomes were derived from the city, but who
pillared both the university and the many houses of worship in Churchton
itself. And sometimes, when she passed over the older generation of these
families in favor of the younger, her courses were more "liberal" than
Churchton's earlier standards quite approved.
On such formal occasions her three young ladies were dispensed with. They
were encouraged to go to some sorority gathering or to some fudge-party. On
the occasion now meditated she had another young person in mind. This was
the granddaughter of one of the banking families; the girl might come along
with her father and mother. She was not very pretty, not very entertaining;
however, Mrs. Phillips needed one girl, and if she were not very
attractive, none the worse. The one girl was for the one young man.
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