Chapter Twenty-seven - Twenty-eight Summary

The Methodists have sent a committee to Miss Love to tell her that she is no longer to play at the service anymore. Grandpa Blakeslee then tells Will that he and Miss Love held church in his house that morning. He was the preacher and she was the piano player. Grandpa says that Love then got a newspaper clipping about fallen women in the mail. She was going to go to church, anyway, but she was so upset and mad, that Grandpa convinced her that it would be better to stay home and have service there.

In an attempt to get Will to stop taking up for Miss Love, Mary Willis tells Will what Miss Love said in the store after the committee spoke to her. Miss Love announced in the store that day that she was...