Their home was attractive; but kind relatives and an attractive home were not the chief magnets which attracted him to the spot.

It was the joy of a pair of soft brown eyes which held him.

Ester Goffe was the most interesting person at Boston.
She was a creature born to inspire one with love.

She was young, hardly yet budded into womanhood, when first he saw her.

Day by day and week by week she seemed to him to grow in beauty and goodness.
The third day after his arrival, General Goffe mysteriously disappeared.
He had been gone almost a week, when Robert asked Ester where her father was.
"He is gone," she answered.