It is not a happy life she leads now, though, for there is continual trouble between the husband and the children, so she is grievously harassed in mind continually." Sir Albert listened as an uninterested person might, then asked some questions about Hugh Price and his good wife Dorothe, and the refractory children, who were causing so much trouble.

He found the Virginian voluble and willing to impart all the information he had; but he grew heartily tired of the loafer and at last left him.
No one was more interested in the stranger from across the sea than Rebecca Stevens.

She had not seen him; but she had heard so much of him from her brother and others, that her girlish curiosity was aroused.

One evening, as she was taking her favorite walk about the village, having wandered farther than she intended, she found herself in the wood above the town, near the old building, which Captain John Smith had called the glass-house.

She turned and began at once retracing her steps, for already the sun had set, and the shades of night were gathering over the landscape.