● ● ● side by side.”118 But the “romping” was now with young people, who furnished a sort of fresh-faced chorus to the serious business of those eighteen months.
For long hours every day she would be alone in her room, writing and searching. Then in the late afternoon she would put aside her pen and would sometimes go out for a little fresh air and exercise. Lucy, who adored her, later wrote:
She would often come to meet me on my way home from school and we would go for a short walk around the neighborhood. A favorite walk of hers was down across the fields to Aunt Lucy Porter’s ancient house where my Cousin Kate lived who did the copying for her book. They were a hospitable family and made one feel very much at home. Mrs. Glover always said that the old house was full of cheer and was a rest to her after her busy day of writing and made her forget her troubles.119
A school friend of Lucy’s wrote Mrs. Eddy in 1909:
Let us go back to the old days when we called you Mrs Glover. There, now I can feel your arms about me as they used to be in the springtime long ago when we used to hunt the anemone and you told me of the beautiful May flowers of your native State. What a beautiful time that was. How we longed for your coming in those days[.] And the evenings the children spent with you in your chamber. How pleasant you always made it for us. We knew we were always welcome.120
Several of the young people later recalled the evenings in Mrs. Glover’s room. Lucy Wentworth is quoted as saying:
After she had worked for hours she always relaxed and threw off her seriousness. Then she would admit us, my brother Charles and me, ● ● ●
118 Mary Baker Glover to Sarah O. Bagley, 20 October 1868, L08306, MBEL.
119 Lucy Wentworth Holmes to Mary Beecher Longyear, 10 February 1922, 1922.008.0001, LMC.
120 Florence Scott Lothrop to Mary Baker Eddy, 24 April 1909, IC470.54.003, MBEL.