The strain upon the imagination was very great.

The road was heavy and rough.
Susannah perceived that Halsey's apprehension of being overtaken was almost solely on her account.

He was so upborne by his religious enthusiasm as to be oblivious to the pain which his wound of yesterday gave him, and was perfectly willing to encounter the violence of her kindred again if need be, yet, seeing her terror with a quickness of sympathy which roused her gratitude, he took every possible precaution that could allay her fears.

All through the weary, weary day she hardly spoke to him, never addressed him by name.
They reached the new town of Geneva at sundown.

When they had set forth again, it was a great comfort to Susannah that grayness had succeeded to sunshine.