... a soda shop; a small grocery store operated by the second generation of another founding family of the town. Miss Strangeworth knows Mr. Lewis, the grocer, from their younger years in the town: "they had been in high school together, and had gone to picnics together, and to high-school dances and basketballs games" (158). Mr. Lewis, in turn, knows the habits of his customers, such as when Miss Strangeworth usually buys her tea. The aged Miss Strangeworth is able to walk wherever she goes in the town; everything is close. There is the colored paper from the newspaper shop: "everyone in town bought it and used it for odd, informal notes and shopping lists" (162). Additionally, there is the usual small-town gossip. When something happens on one side of town, folks on the other side of town know about it and will speculate about it. "Only yesterday the Stewarts' fifteen-year-old ...

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