When Mrs. Baroda had learned that her husband's friend would be coming to stay for a few weeks she was a bit agitated. From hearing all the stories her husband had told about the man who would be staying with them, she was expecting to meet someone who she would not like. Instead, Gouvernail was a man very much unlike what she had expected. In fact, she rather liked him when they had first met. …showed first 75 words of 659 total…

…showed last 75 words of 659 total…had originally expected. While problems may have arose due to Gouvernail's unresponsiveness to Mrs. Baroda's attempts to be a good hostess, she ultimately figures out just how much she likes him by the end of the story. Through details and other clues read in the story it's easy to figure out that the next time Gouvernail visits Mrs. Baroda and her husband that the title of "a respectable woman" may not be so respectable anymore.