`` I think Grandmother King intended the last of the epitaph to be in blank verse , '' said Felicity with dignity . There was still only a sprinkling of people in the church when we went in and took our places in the old-fashioned , square King pew . We had just got comfortably settled when Felicity said in an agitated whisper , `` Here is Peg Bowen ! '' We all stared at Peg , who was pacing composedly up the aisle . We might be excused for so doing , for seldom were the decorous aisles of Carlisle church invaded by such a figure . Peg was dressed in her usual short drugget skirt , rather worn and frayed around the bottom , and a waist of brilliant turkey red calico . She wore no hat , and her grizzled black hair streamed in elf locks over her shoulders . Face , arms and feet were bare -- and face , arms and feet were liberally powdered with FLOUR . Certainly no one who saw Peg that night could ever forget the apparition . Peg 's black eyes , in which shone a more than usually wild and fitful light , roved scrutinizingly over the church , then settled on our pew . `` She 's coming here , '' whispered Felicity in horror . `` Ca n't we spread out and make her think the pew is full ? '' But the manoeuvre was too late . The only result was that Felicity and the Story Girl in moving over left a vacant space between them and Peg promptly plumped down in it . `` Well , I 'm here , '' she remarked aloud . `` I did say once I 'd never darken the door of Carlisle church again , but what that boy there '' -- nodding at Peter -- `` said last winter set me thinking , and I concluded maybe I 'd better come once in a while , to be on the safe side . '' Those poor girls were in an agony . Everybody in the church was looking at our pew and smiling . We all felt that we were terribly disgraced ; but we could do nothing . Peg was enjoying herself hugely , beyond all doubt .
From where she sat she could see the whole XXXXX , including pulpit and gallery , and her black eyes darted over it with restless glances .
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