I am doing what my mother earnestly wished me to do; and what to the last she felt relieved by my doing.

I know Frank will feel sorrow, because I myself have such an aching heart; but if I had asked him whether I was not right in going, he would have been too truthful not to have said yes.

I have tried to do right, and though I may fail, and evil may seem to arise rather than good out of my endeavor, yet still I will submit to my failure, and try and say 'God's will be done!' If only I might have seen Frank once more, and told him all face to face!" To do away with such thoughts, she determined no longer to sit gazing, and tempted by the shore; and, giving one look to the land which contained her lover, she went down below, and busied herself, even through her blinding tears, in trying to arrange her own cabin, and Edward's.

She heard boat after boat arrive loaded with passengers.

She learnt from Edward, who came down to tell her the fact, that there were upwards of two hundred steerage passengers.