The word home had struck strangely into Carley's mind and remained there.

Suddenly she realized what it was to be homesick.

The comfort, the ease, the luxury, the rest, the sweetness, the pleasure, the cleanliness, the gratification to eye and ear--to all the senses--how these thoughts came to haunt her! All of Carley's will power had been needed to sustain her on this trip to keep her from miserably failing.

She had not failed.

But contact with the West had affronted, disgusted, shocked, and alienated her.