It was her proposition to send at once for her cousin Duroy, and have him receive very particular directions from Tom how to reach the island and find the cottage.

Tom said he didn't know whether he could get away for an hour again, because his master was always very angry if he was out of the way when called; but if Mr.Duroy would come to the hotel, he would find chances to tell him what to do.
And that plan was immediately carried into effect.
While these things were going on in New Orleans, Mrs.Fitzgerald was taking frequent drives about the lovely island with her mother, Mrs.
Bell; while Rosa was occasionally perambulating her little circuit of woods on the back of patient Thistle.

One day Mrs.Fitzgerald and her mother received an invitation to the Welby plantation, to meet some Northern acquaintances who were there; and as Mrs.Fitzgerald's strength was not yet fully restored, Mrs.Welby proposed that they should remain all night.

Chloe, who had lost her own baby, was chosen to nurse her master's new-born heir, and was consequently tied so closely that she could find no chance to go to the cottage, whose inmates she had a great longing to see.

But when master and mistress were both gone, she thought she might take her freedom for a while without incurring any great risk.