Mr.Henry White had too long a neck, and too large a mouth, which was, moreover, too firmly set, otherwise Maria felt that, with slight encouragement, she might fall in love with him, since he showed so much delicacy.

She counted up the probable difference in their ages, and estimated it as no more than was between her father and Her.

However, Mr.Henry White gave her so little encouragement, and his neck was so much too long above his collar, that she decided to put it out of her mind.
"Poor little thing," Mr.Henry White said to his father, next day, "she's about wild, with mother and Lill harping on it all the time." "They mean well," said Mr.White.
"Of course they do; but who's going to stand this eternal harping?
If women folks would only stop being so durned kind, and let folks alone sometimes, they'd be a durned sight kinder." "That's so," said Mr.Jonas White.
Maria's father and his bride reached home about seven on the Monday night after Thanksgiving.

Maria re-entered her old home in the afternoon.

Miss Zella Holmes, who was another teacher of hers, went with her.