Then, too, they had much to say of the future, chiefly by way of conjecture, for no member of the order accompanied them.

No one was superior and no superior was needed.

As to devotional exercises each suited himself, kneeling down and saying his prayers night and morning and at other times, in his own way and words.
There was also difference in matters of devotion, for Isaac Hecker had little or no religious training, and as to the traditional forms of religious practice he was very backward.

The others had long since familiarized themselves with all Catholic usages.

Young Walworth taught young Hecker how to say the rosary and initiated him, doubtless, into other common practices, which he assumed with the simplicity and docility of the child of guileless nature that he was.
The ship, as we have said, was bound to London, but our party were too impatient to wait till the end of the voyage and left her at Portsmouth in the pilot's boat; the sea was running high, but so were their spirits, and although the boat was tossed about in a way to scare a landsman, they gladly went ashore and took the cars to London.