A Wagner Matinee

A Wagner Matinee

Aunt Georgiana is on her way to town because she has been left money from a a bachelor   relative
Clark perceives his aunt as being battered, but respected
The aunt was from a wealthy family, has a good education including music. ; She elopes with the uncle and moves to a homestead to escape her families opinions of him.
The uncle is poor, so the family was brought up on a farm away from the city
The narrator remembers the aunt teaching him late into the night, he recalls trying to do some music he was having a hard time with ; the aunt tells him "Don't love it so well, Clark, or it may be taken from you."
Clark decides he will take his aunt to the opera, but after attempting to talk with her about the city he finds his aunt is avoiding the subject a little;

The day of the opera Clark notices how unemotional his aunt is ; "she sat looking about her her   with eyes as impersonal, almost as stony, as those with which the granite Rameses...." ; (watching like a statue)
The aunt gets very emotional during the opera, she cries and states to Clark; "And you have been hearing this ever since you left me, Clark?"
The aunt   and Clark sit in the opera house after the show is finished and the guest have all left, then the out cries and pleads "I don't want to go, Clark, I don't want to go!"