I do not think that Westcott, in taking charge of Katy, was wholly generous, yet there was a generous, and after a fashion, maybe, a loving feeling for the girl in the proposal.

That good motives were uppermost, I will not say.

They were somewhere in the man, and that is enough to temper our feeling toward him.
Isa Marlay was very unwilling to have Katy go.

But the poor little thing was disheartened where she was--the shore did not seem very far away, looking along the water horizontally--the cries of the people on the bank seemed near--she was sure she could not hold on much longer--she was so anxious to get out of this cold lake--she was so afraid to die--she dreaded the black leeches at the bottom--she loved and trusted Smith as such women as she always love and trust--and so she was glad to accept his offer.

It was so good of Smith to love her so and to save her.