No husband to watch for and anticipate every wish.

A poor, timid, nervous old maid, thrown adrift in her old age upon a strange sea of anomalous wonders.

Every old favourite prejudice torn up by the roots.

All old formulas of life scattered to the winds! She told me in confidence that evening that she had been in sad trouble all day.

At dinner-time, some naked blacks had come up to the dray, and had frightened and shocked her.