As Young had his bright-eyed Indian boys and girls, who had learned Christianity from him, and whose future depended on him, so Nell had her aged and weakening uncle to care for and cherish.
Jim's attentions to her before the deep affliction had not been slight, but now they were so marked as to be unmistakable.

In some way Jim seemed changed since he had returned from the Delaware encampment.

Although he went back to the work with his old aggressiveness, he was not nearly so successful as he had been before.

Whether or not this was his fault, he took his failure deeply to heart.

There was that in his tenderness which caused Nell to regard him, in one sense, as she did her uncle.