Unlike Stephen, who fiercely resented the whole affair and said bitter things concerning his parent, she believed he had done what he considered right.

Her feeling against Captain Elisha had been based upon the latter's acceptance of that appointment when he should have realized his unfitness.

And his living with them and disgracing them in the eyes of their friends by his uncouth, country ways, made her blind to his good qualities.

The Moriarty matter touched her conscience, and she saw more clearly.

But she was very far from considering him an equal, or other than what Mrs.Corcoran Dunn termed him, an "encumbrance," even yet.