There came a rumor which time confirmed that the _Silverwing_ was lost.

Dorothe, who was of a hopeful nature, would not believe it at first, though the news had a very disastrous effect to her credit.

She was refused at every shop and store in Jamestown.

In her distress she sold such articles as she could dispense with; but Jamestown was only a frontier hamlet, it had no such conveniences as pawnbrokers and secondhand clothiers, and what few articles she could dispose of were sold mainly to freed or indented servants at ruinous prices.
Dorothe's fashionable friends deserted her.

The ladies and cavaliers at Greenspring became suddenly cold and she remained at home.