Question

significance of slipper episode of dear departed

Answer 1

In the story, Dear departed, Mrs Slater is the daughter of the thought to be dead old man Mr Abel Merryweather.

She gets ready for mourning of her father. She gave new slippers of his father to Henry, his husband. But to their ill luck, the old man did not die but was resting. Seeing the old man alive, Henry takes off his slippers.