Out in the West Indies he met with a pretty young lady, a governess in an English family, and, taking a violent fancy to her, married her, though she was a good five-and-twenty years younger than himself.

After the wedding they came to England, and it was at this time that I was lucky enough to be engaged by them as a servant.
I lived with my new master and mistress three years.

They had no children.

At the end of that period Mr.Norcross died.

He was sharp enough to foresee that his young widow would marry again, and he bequeathed his property so that it all went to Mrs.Norcross first, and then to any children she might have by a second marriage, and, failing that, to relations and friends of his own.