Chapter XIX and XX Summary

In Chapter XIX, after her husband's death, Agnes' mother receives a letter from her father. The letter offers to remit her to the family and include Agnes and Mary in his will if she will admit that she was wrong in marrying and going against her father's wishes and that she has regretted that decision. Mary and Agnes support their mother in denouncing their grandfather's wishes and telling him that the past thirty years have not been regrettable. They hear nothing else from him until they see an obituary in the paper announcing his death.

In Chapter XX, Agnes' mother finds a house that will work for a school and even lines up a few pupils. Meanwhile, Agnes goes back to Horton Lodge until July when she will end her job there and join her mother teaching...