Mrs.Costello went shivering back to bed, but she did not sleep again.

She began to consider anxiously how far the boat that was carrying her dead could have come before the storm commenced.

At midnight it had been quite calm, probably indeed till four or five o'clock; and if the sailors had foreseen the change, they would most likely have made all possible speed.

If they did so, the wind and current both being in their favour, they ought to be here now; but if, as was quite equally likely, they had stopped last night at some port, would they venture out in this storm?
She began to regret that she had not caused the body to be sent by land, so as to have only to cross the narrow current which divided the island from the Canadian shore.

She had decided against this plan on account of the greater distance and the difficulty of transport, but now these seemed less formidable than the uncertainty and possible danger of the route she had chosen.
She was glad when Lucia awoke, and she could speak of her uneasiness.