The dainty imprints of her feet were plainly discernible in the soft earth.

Then he went to the path--and with a laugh so loud that it startled the birds into silence he set off with long strides in the direction of St.James.From the footprints in that path it was quite evident that Strang's wife was a frequent visitor at Obadiah's.
At the edge of the forest, from where he could see the log house situated across the opening, Nathaniel paused.

He had made up his mind that the girl whom he had seen through the king's window was in some way associated with it.

Obadiah had hinted as much and she had come from there on her way to Strang's.

But as the prophet's wives lived in his castle at St.James this surely could not be her home.