He married her secretly while she was staying with an aunt at Portsmouth.
He sailed away, my mother told my grandfather all, and he brought her home here.

The marriage was regular, of course, but my grandfather, after announcing it, and bringing it before the Elders, declared that she should never see her husband again.

She never did, for she died a few months after, when I came, and my father died very soon, also.

I never saw him, and I do not know if he ever tried to see me.

I never had any feeling about it.