Later that night, Joe Dagget comes to visit Louisa. As evening sets in and she washes her dishes, she takes pleasure in listening to the frogs and toads croak outside her window.
She fixes herself dinner, which she eats contentedly, and she goes outside to feed her dog, Caesar, who lives in the backyard. The story opens on a peaceful afternoon, where Louisa, having just finished working at her needlepoint, goes outside to pick some currants, and then happily steeps herself tea. “A New England Nun” tells the story of Louisa Ellis, a woman engaged to be married to Joe Dagget but who feels ambivalent because she has loved living alone for the last fifteen years.
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