But in the bush the thing is very different.

It may be that there is no young man available within fifty miles--no possible lover or future husband, unless Heaven should interfere almost with a miracle.

To those to whom lovers are as plentiful as blackberries it may seem indelicate to surmise that the thought of such a want should ever enter a girl's head.

I doubt whether the defined idea of any want had ever entered poor Kate's head.

But now that the possible lover was there--not only possible, but very probable--and so eligible in many respects, living so close, with a house over his head and a good business; and then so handsome, and, as Kate thought, so complete a gentleman! Of course she turned it much in her mind.