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I do n't see why you keep living here in a cheap little house like ours , '' she said . On a warm spring Sunday night during the year in which Clara Butterworth came back to Bidwell to live , Hugh made what was for him an almost desperate effort to approach the school teacher . It had been a rainy afternoon and Hugh had spent a part of it in the house . He came over from his shop at noon and went to his room . When she was at home the school teacher occupied a room next his own . The mother who seldom left the house had on that day gone to the country to visit a brother . The daughter got dinner for herself and Hugh and he tried to help her wash the dishes .