The Congregationalist Church of Collinwood
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As Harry enters the church, she spots Abigail Collins sitting near the front.

Abigail has not seen her yet.

She may or may not do so before the service begins... depends where Harry sits... but it's even more likely that she will after the service is over...

Harry chooses a pew at the rear of the church, as near to the doors as possible, hoping her presence will generally go unnoticed.


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The scripture of the day is Job 3:8: "Let those who are experts at cursing--whose cursing could rouse Leviathan--curse that day."

The sermon played off that, about how, while it's a natural human impulse to be tempted to curse the plan God has for us in bad times, one must nonetheless resist it.

The preacher tosses in Job 41:1 ("Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie his tongue down with a rope?"), Psalm 104:25 ("So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts"), Isaiah 27:1 ("In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea"), and in the end, just for a big finish, even tossed in Revelation 20:2 ("And he laid hold on the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years).

There might have been a little subtext in there, Harry thought, where the real subject was the Collins family, which was like unto a god in Collinsport, that even though you might not like the way they ran everyone's life, cursing them had a tendency to just make things worse. Or was she seeing it a bit too personally? She didn't think so...

Finally, the service ends...

Does Harry hurry out, or take her time (under the idea that hurrying might actually draw more attention than playing it cool)?

Harry remains seated until the two pews before her empty, then rises and inserts herself into the first available gap between those congregants and the churchgoers from the pews before them. Once out the door, she trails along with the crowd headed toward the center of town, thinking to have Sunday breakfast before swinging by the constable's office.

Her plan seems to be working... Does she look back...?

Harry only looks back as she prepares to round a corner and lose sight of the church.

Sure enough, Abigail Collins is glaring at Harry when she glances back... Abigail says something to someone walking with her, another, older man (older than Harry, not that much older than Abigail)... Harry thinks he might be another Collins relative (not Isaac, though)...?