He was sick, and he'd looked after her when her parents died and she wouldn't leave him.
And now he was dead and she was coming out to marry John Selwyn.
'Twasn't no easy journey for a woman in them days.

There weren't no steamers, you must ricollect.
"'When do you expect her ?' says I.
"'She sails on the Royal William, the 20th of June,' says he, 'and so she should be here by mid-July.

I must set Carpenter Johnson to building me a home for her.

Her letter come today.

I know before I opened it that it had good news for me.