The ordinary functions of life appeared to be deadened.
The day happened to be Sunday, and therefore the workmen were absent.
Carley had the place to herself.

How the half-completed house mocked her! She could not bear to look at it.

What use could she make of it now?
Flo Hutter had become the working comrade of Glenn Kilbourne, the mistress of his cabin.

She was his wife and she would be the mother of his children.
That thought gave birth to the darkest hour of Carley Burch's life.

She became possessed as by a thousand devils.