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…showed last 75 words of 480 total…the second stanza that Henny has a weak heart and therefore cannot drink coffee. The way she sits in the rocking chair and people wait on her suggests that she is very ill and frail. The family may have moved house from the city so that she would become happier and healthier. If so, Henny is rejecting this charity; she feels uncomfortable in these new surroundings, a stranger in what is supposedly her own home.