There was no light in the parlor.

"She doesn't expect me, after all," he thought, but with a great pang of disappointment rather than relief.

He judged such proceedings from the rustic standpoint.

Always in Upham, when a girl expected a young man to come to spend an evening with her, she lighted the best parlor and entertained him there in isolation from the rest of her family.

He did not know how different a training in such respects Lucina had had.