However, somehow or other she didn't seem to care.

If her husband's living had been amongst green fields and near pleasant neighbours she would have liked it better--that she never pretended to deny.

But there they were.

The air wasn't bad, after all; the people were very good sort of people--civil to you if you were civil to them, after the first brush; and they didn't expect to work miracles, and convert them all off-hand into model Christians.

So he and she went quietly among the folk, talking to and treating them just as they would have done people of their own rank.