But when it was done there came reaction to Jessica.
In the solitude of her own room--the room above the hallway, from which she had gone to be captured by Bucklaw--she had misgivings.

If she had been asked whether she loved Iberville, she might have answered no.
But he was a possible lover; and every woman weighs the possible lover against the accepted one--often, at first, to fluttering apprehensions.
In this brief reaction many a woman's heart has been caught away.
A few days after Gering's arrival he was obliged to push on to Boston, there to meet Phips.

He hoped that Mr.Leveret and Jessica would accompany him, but Governor Nicholls would not hear of it just yet.
Truth is, wherever the girl went she was light and cheerfulness, although her ways were quiet and her sprightliness was mostly in her looks.

She was impulsive, but impulse was ruled by a reserve at once delicate and unembarrassed.

She was as much beloved in the town of New York as in Boston.
Two days after Gering left she was wandering in the garden, when the governor joined her.
"Well, well, my pretty councillor," he said--"an hour to cheer an old man's leisure ?" "As many as you please," she answered daintily, putting her hand within his arm.