She expected visits from her new friends, she would have company, the new books and the periodicals about which all the world was talking, and, in short, she would have life.
For a little while she lived in this atmosphere which she had brought with her.

Her mother was delighted with this change in her, with the improvement in her health and the interest she exhibited in home affairs.
Her father enjoyed the society of his favorite daughter as he did few things besides; he liked her mirthful and teasing ways, and not less a keen battle over something she had read.

He had been a great reader all his life, and a remarkable memory had stored his mind with encyclopaedic information.

It was one of Ruth's delights to cram herself with some out of the way subject and endeavor to catch her father; but she almost always failed.

Mr.Bolton liked company, a house full of it, and the mirth of young people, and he would have willingly entered into any revolutionary plans Ruth might have suggested in relation to Friends' society.
But custom and the fixed order are stronger than the most enthusiastic and rebellious young lady, as Ruth very soon found.