So Theodosia--barely thirty years old--vanished from the world so far as we may know.

The dramatic and tragic mystery of her death seems oddly in keeping with her life and that of her father.

Somehow one could scarcely imagine Theo growing old peacefully on a Southern plantation! Her father never regained his old eagerness for life after her loss.
He lived for years, practised law once more with distinction and success on Nassau Street, even made a second marriage very late in life, but I think some vivid, vital, romantic part of him, something of ambition and fire and adventure, was lost at sea with his child Theodosia.
And now shall we go back, for a few moments only, to Richmond Hill?
Counsellor Benson (or Benzon) is generally supposed to have been the last true-blue celebrity to inhabit the famous old house.

He was Governor of the Danish Islands, and an eccentric.

Our old friend Verplanck says that he himself dined there once with thirteen others, all speaking different languages....