Good-night." John went upstairs to bed with much to think about, and above all else of the disappointing summer before him and the wish he had long cherished, but which his uncle's last words had made it necessary for him to reconsider.
Ann Penhallow had made a characteristic fight against the combined forces of the doctor and her husband.

She had declared she would give up this and that, if only she could be left at home.

She showed to the doctor an irritability quite new to his experience of her and which he accepted as added evidence of need of change.

Her bodily condition and her want of common sense in a matter so clear to him troubled the Squire and drove him to his usual resort when worried--long rides or hard tramps with his gun.

After luncheon and a decisive talk with Mrs.Ann, she had pleaded that he ought to remain with them at the shore.