One day in March, looking across the road from the Scribners’, she saw a For Sale sign in the window of No. 8 Broad Street. By the end of the month she had bought the unpretentious little house for $5,650. It was necessary for her to rent most of it to tenants, retaining only the front parlor of the second floor for her personal use and a tiny bedroom on the third floor.¹⁵⁵ All the light and ventilation in this attic room came through a skylight in the sloping roof; but it was a quiet haven for her and on the wall she hung a framed text, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” which opened on wider vistas than the skylight disclosed.¹⁵⁶

Now she could hold another class, and within a fortnight a little group of four was meeting regularly in her parlor. One of the four was Daniel Harrison Spofford, whose wife had studied with her in 1870. The Spoffords had returned to Lynn a short while before. Mrs. Spofford, now under the domination of Kennedy, had refused to share with her husband what she had learned from Mrs. Glover, but he had studied the latter’s manuscripts and had grasped enough by himself to begin healing.¹⁵⁷ Hearing of this, Mrs. Glover had written him on February 1, “I tender you a cordial welcome to join my next class including instructions in healing without manipulation, ‘without money and without price.’ ”¹⁵⁸

Spofford was a gentle, idealistic person, then about thirty-three years old. He had had to work hard since boyhood but had educated himself and was gifted with a reflective and winning temperament. Something of this shows in the letter he wrote Mrs. Glover one night during the course: