She had torn up her love for him by the roots, but she felt as if she could never forget that it had been.
Hester brought back Bella to her mother.

She had not liked to interrupt the conversation with the strange lady before; and now she found her mother in an obvious state of excitement; Sylvia quieter than usual.
'That was Kinraid's wife, Hester! Him that was th' specksioneer as made such a noise about t' place at the time of Darley's death.

He's now a captain--a navy captain, according to what she says.

And she'd fain have us believe that Philip is abiding in all manner of Scripture places; places as has been long done away with, but the similitude whereof is in the heavens, where the elect shall one day see them.

And she says Philip is there, and a soldier, and that he saved her husband's life, and is coming home soon.