Eliza heard, for one, and was a good deal shocked.

Still, as the men about the place remarked that it was a happy release for Father Cameron, who had undoubtedly gone to heaven, and that it was an advantage, too, to Job's wife, who would now be saved from further torment at her husband's hands, her mind became acquiescent.

For herself, she had no reason to be sorry the old man was dead.

It was better for him; it was better for her, too.

So, without inward or outward agitation, she directed the morning business of the house, setting all things in such order that she, the guiding hand of it all, might that afternoon take holiday.
Some days before she had been invited by Mrs.Rexford to spend this afternoon with them and take tea.