She objected, as she did to everything.

He told her bitterly that he did not want her to come: so she went.

Bell went out in Governor Crawley's time, and was very intimate with that gentleman in his later years.

And it was in Coventry Island, years after his own marriage, and five years after he had heard of the birth of Helen's boy, that his own daughter was born.
She was not the daughter of the first Mrs.Bell, who died of island fever very soon after Helen Pendennis and her husband, to whom Helen had told everything, wrote to inform Bell of the birth of their child.

"I was old, was I ?" said Mrs.Bell the first; "I was old, and her inferior, was I?
but I married you, Mr.Bell, and kept you from marrying her ?" and hereupon she died.