To this woman Gilbert repeated the question he had asked of others, with the same disheartening result.
"The poor dear young lady felt the Captain's loss dreadfully; as well she might, when they had been so fond of each other," Sarah Down said, in answer to one of Gilbert's inquiries.

"I never knew any one grieve so deeply.

She wouldn't go anywhere, and she couldn't bear to see any one who came to see her.

She used to shut herself up in the Captain's room day after day, kneeling by his bedside, and crying as if her heart would break.

I have looked through the keyhole sometimes, and seen her there on her knees, with her face buried in the bedclothes.