What good fortune comes to Aunt Patsy Cooper and her daughter Rowena? Explain how the treatment of newcomers reinforces the small town atmosphere Twain establishes in the first chapter.

Two lodgers from St. Louis were to stay at her place. The two lodgers are going to be foreigners of acceptable type. This can shake up the very Southern white homogenous atmosphere of this small town,

"Italians! How romantic! Just think, Ma -- there's never been one in this town, and everybody will be dying to see them, and they're all OURS! Think of that!"