She can write." Her mistress talked with her every day about the lost darling; but of course such suspicions were not to be mentioned to her.

Gerald, who disliked everything mournful, avoided the subject entirely; and Rosabella, looking upon him only with the eyes of love, considered it a sign of deep feeling, and respected it accordingly.
But, blinded as she was, she gradually became aware that he did not seem exactly like the same man who first won her girlish love.

Her efforts to please him were not always successful.

He was sometimes moody and fretful.

He swore at the slightest annoyance, and often flew into paroxysms of anger with Tom and Tulee.