apushatayid: “Let’s ask a few kashas oif a maaseh to try and understand its message.
The fact that it was an older woman and younger woman implies a mother and daughter, how?”
“In the sefer Shomer Emunim, The Shomer Emunim Rebbe writes: “It seems that the young woman was a daughter of the older woman.”
The exact source of the story in the OP is: Sefer Shomer Emunim. section “mevo hashar” perek [chapter] 16.