The narrator goes through the gate and is welcomed into the sparsely furnished house. It is obvious that Azalea Adair is very poor. She is thin and frail, already white-haired at fifty, but at the same time she has the air of a queen. The narrator finds her exquisite — an old-fashioned, sheltered but well-educated Southern lady. He is so enchanted that he is unable to discuss something as pedantic as a contract. Instead he makes an appointment for three o'clock the following afternoon to discuss business. As he rises to leave, the narrator comments on the quiet town, saying it seems the sort of place where few things out of the ordinary ever happen. Azalea gently but sincerely disagrees and suggests that it is in the quiet places that things do happen. - artwork in the style of Diane Harper
The narrator goes through the gate and is welcomed into the sparsely furnished house. It is obvio... [more]