The wife, however, was obdurate as ever.

She stood at the cabin door, her eyes flashing fire, and quite bewildered to decide in what way to attempt to repel and drive off her foe.
She expected that the boy would come alone, and that, with her all-potent tongue, she would so fiercely assail him and so frighten her young girl as still to prevent the marriage.

But here was quite an army of the neighbors, from miles around, assembled.

They were all evidently the friends of David.

Every eye was fixed upon her.