All day long she would sit with her sad eyes on the floor, and she had not smiled since she came aboard.
When the messenger came from the shore, with the command from Hugh Price for her to come to the home he had provided, she started like a guilty person detected in crime.

Turning her great, sad eyes on the man who had been their protector in their hour of peril, she asked: "Shall I go ?" "The place of a good wife is with her husband," he answered.
Then Rebecca, appealing to him, asked: "Must I obey Hugh Price ?" "Is he your father ?" "No." "You are of age ?" "I am." "Then choose with whom you will live, Hugh Price, or with your brother on the James River." "I will live with my brother." Mrs.Price cast her eyes on the river filled with floating ice and, shuddering, said: "The water is so dark and cold, and the boat is so frail." "Shall I take you in mine ?" asked Sir Albert.
"Will you ?" "If you desire it." The boat was lowered, and Mrs.Price was tenderly assisted into it.

Then he climbed down into the stern, seized the rudder, and gave the command to his four sturdy oarsmen: "Pull ashore." It was a bleak, cold, wintry day.

The wind swept down the ice-filled river.

From the deck, closely muffled in wraps and robes, Rebecca saw her mother and Sir Albert depart for the snow-clad shore.