It has made me younger, and happier, to have a son." In David there was growing--but concealed from Father Roland's eyes for a long time--a strange insistent restlessness.

It ran in his blood, like a thing alive, whenever he looked at the face of the Girl.

He wanted to go on.
And yet life at the Chateau, after the first two weeks, was anything but dull and unexciting.

They were in the heart of the great trapping country.

Forty miles to the north was a Hudson's Bay post where an ordained minister of the Church of England had a mission.