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She married Mortimer Conklin , took him to the Centennial on a wedding trip , came home , rebuilt her father 's house , covering it with towers and minarets and steeples , and scroll-saw fretwork , and christened it Winthrop Hall . She erected a store building on Main Street , that Mortimer might have a luxurious office on the second floor , and then settled down to the serious business of life , which was building up a titled aristocracy in a Kansas town . The Conklin children were never sent to the public schools , but had a governess , yet Mortimer Conklin , who was always alert for the call , could not understand why the people never summoned him to any office of honor or trust . He kept his brass signboard polished , went to his office punctually every morning at ten o'clock , and returned home to dinner at five , and made clients wait ten minutes in the outer office before they could see him -- at least so both of them say , and there were no others in all the years . He shaved every day , wore a frock-coat and a high hat to church -- where for ten years he was the only male member of the Episcopalian flock -- and Mrs. Conklin told the women that altogether he was a credit to his sex and his family -- a remark which has passed about ribaldly in town for a dozen years , though Mortimer Conklin never knew that he was the subject of a town joke . Once he rebuked a man in the barber shop for speaking of feminine extravagance , and told the shop that he did not stint his wife , that when she asked him for money he always gave it to her without question , and that if she wanted a dress he told her to buy it and send the bill to him . And we are such a polite people that no one in the crowded shop laughed -- until Mortimer Conklin went out .