His success gave him courage and he essayed other dances; in fact, he had a very good time at the party after all.
On the way home he thought a great deal about the pretty young lady, whose name he discovered was Emily Richards.

He decided that if she would only wait for him, he might like to marry her when he grew up.
But he was thirteen and she was seventeen, and the very next year she married John Thayer, the sailor in the blue suit.

And two years after that young Cy ran away to be a sailor himself.
In spite of his age and his lifetime of battering about the world, Captain Cy had a sentimental streak in his makeup; his rejuvenation of the old home proved that.

Betsy's letter interested him.

He had made guarded inquiries concerning Mary Thayer, now Mary Thomas, of others besides Asaph, and the answers had been satisfactory so far as they went; those who remembered her had liked her very much.