It was on the journey back with her that the accident to Eva happened, which ended in his buying Tom.
Miss Ophelia was a very prim and precise person, not at all like the St.Clares.In her home people did not have slaves.

Though her cousin had a great many, and was kind to them, she could not help seeing that it was a very wicked thing to buy and sell men and women as if they were cattle.

She was very, very sorry for the poor slaves, and would have liked to free them all.

Yet she did not love them.

She could not bear even to have them near her, nor to touch them, just because they were black.
[Illustration] It made her quite ill to see Eva kissing and hugging the black slave women when she came home.
'Well, I couldn't do that,' she said.
'Why not ?' said Mr.St.Clare, who was looking on.
'Well, I want to be kind to every one.