Chapter 9
Week 5, Instructor Calendar, March 1898
I pray you, sir, go forth,
And give us truth who ’tis that is arrived.
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At last the Capshaws returned from their honeymoon. Although Martha had no doubt left them a message, Concordia wasted no time. As soon as she finished with classes for the day, she hopped a trolley and got off at Retreat Avenue, walking the last few blocks to the Capshaws’ new residence on Alden.
It was a working class neighborhood, quite different from the nearby Governor’s Row section of wealthy families in which Sophia had grown up. However, it wasn’t run-down or crime-ridden, as some poorer neighborhoods could be. Here, a mixture of children, languages, and occupations abounded, merchants ran small shops and kept their sidewalks well swept, and people smi
