Therefore she was ready to fulfil her promise.

Yet had she misgivings?
For, only a few days before, she had sent for the old pastor at Boston, who had known her since she was a child.

She wished, she said, to be married by him and no other at Governor Nicholls's house, rather than at her own home at Boston, where there was none other of her name.
The old pastor had come that afternoon, and she had asked him to see her that evening.

Not long after Morris had done with singing there came a tapping at her door.

She answered and old Pastor Macklin entered, a white-haired man of kindly yet stern countenance, by nature a gentleman, by practice a bigot.