![]() ![]() ![]() John's mother simply announces, at dinner, that she has met another man on "the good old Boston and Maine." After reassuring Mrs. John remembers the night when his mother told the family about Dan Needham. It was on this line that she met John's father, and on this line that she met the man she married, Dan Needham, the man for whom she took John away from the Congregationalist Church and to the Episcopalian. ![]() He does not remember her flirting with men, but imagines that she must have done so on the Boston and Maine railway line, which took her into Boston for her singing lessons. Everyone wanted to touch her, he says, and she was catlike about being touched, either freezing, ducking, or luxuriating in the contact. He describes her manner of dressing, which accentuated her good looks without showing them off, and her touchability. John remembers his mother, whose name was Tabitha, but who was almost always called Tabby. ![]()
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