Liddy prodded her into sending it to Boldwood instead. As the girls chatted, she recalled having bought a valentine for little Teddy Coggan and proceeded to inscribe it with a verse. She was sure that everyone in the church had focused attention on Bathsheba except Boldwood, who sat in the same line of pews. "It was Wisdom in the abstract facing Folly in the concrete." After they went through the ritual with the key and Bible, Liddy asked of whom Bathsheba had been thinking, surmising that her mistress's mind might have been on Boldwood, as her own had been. Bathsheba turned to the Book of Ruth and, reading, she was a bit abashed. To while away Sunday afternoon, Bathsheba and the chatterbox Liddy, who, "like a little brook, though shallow was always rippling," practice an old superstition: divining one's future husband by consulting the Bible with a key.
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