It was not that she expected much pleasure even in seeing her mother;--but that it was expedient at such a time to maintain what fellowship might still be possible with her own family.

The trial would of course liberate them from all their trouble; and then, when the trial should be over, it would be very sad if an entire rupture between herself and her parents should have been created.

She would be true to her husband; as true as a part must be to the whole, as the heart must to the brain.

They two were, and ever would be, one.

But if her mother could be spared to her, if she could be saved from a lasting quarrel with her mother, it would be so much to her! Tears came into the eyes even of the old man as he assented; and her husband swore to her that for her sake he would forgive every injury from any one bearing the name of Bolton when all this should be over.
A day was therefore fixed, and a note was written, and on the last day of February she and her baby and her nurse were taken over to Puritan Grange.