The umbrella was a very heavy one.

Susannah certainly could not have held it against the wind.

Joseph Smith held the shelter between Susannah and the blast, looking at her occasionally with a kindly expression in his blue eyes, but merely to see how far it sheltered her.
They walked in silence for about a quarter of a mile.

The rain swept upon her skirt and feet; she saw it falling thick on either side; she saw it beating upon Smith's shoulder, upon one side of his hat, and dripping from his light hair.

The wind was so strong that the very drops that trickled from his hair were blown backward.