"No, her body has not been found yet, though men are searching for it all the time, so I understand," the visitor explained.
"Do her parents, I mean the Randalls, feel very badly about her death, Hettie?"
"In a way I suppose they do. But I have heard that they are more angry than anything else. Their minds were so set upon the girl marrying that Lord's son that they are greatly disappointed. I admire her for what she did. I wish I had done the same myself before I married Gabe Grimsby. My life has been a living death ever since. But, there, I have talked too long. I must hurry away home. I hope Gabe will never know that I have been here. He must think that he lost that money."
"You are not going to walk home, Hettie," Mrs. Hampton told her. "John will be back shortly, and he will take y
