None of them except Eugene gave him a nod of recognition.

Eugene bowed always, with his unfailing grace of courtesy, but he hated him more than all the others, for he was jealous on his own account as well as his sister's.

It was said that Burr Gordon, since his acquittal, was courting Dorothy Fair steadily, although they had not been seen out together.
Burr had been to the Hautville house twice since his return from New Salem, but had not been admitted.

Once when he called Madelon had been alone in the house, and caught a glimpse of her old lover coming into the yard.

She had sprung up, letting her needle-work slide to the floor, and fled with her face as white as death and her heart beating hard into the freezing best room, and stood back in a corner out of range of the windows, and listened to the taps of the knocker and finally to Burr's retreating steps.