Chapters 28-29: In Which Miss Love Takes On Cold Sassy (and Ain't Loma)

Chapters 28 and 29:

Will realizes that the town criticizes Miss Love no matter what she does: They criticized her for wearing black for Miss Maddie Lou, but now they criticize her for wearing red. But instead of going home and crying, Miss Love fights back. She goes to the store, and tells everyone to keep calling her Miss Love, not Mrs. Blakeslee. she then shocks the whole community by announcing her  entire arrangement with Grandpa. She then stands up to Loma when Loma pays "a christian call" to "ask" for the furniture she wants. She tells Loma that she doesn't want, "but over my dead body you'll get the piano!" Will says that with these two affronts, Miss Love has declared war on Cold Sassy.