"She was favored by young Henry Vane, who had come over from England a year or two before, and had since been chosen governor of the colony, at the age of twenty-four.

But Winthrop and most of the other leading men, as well as the ministers, felt an abhorrence of her doctrines.

Thus two opposite parties were formed; and so fierce were the dissensions that it was feared the consequence would be civil war and bloodshed.

But Winthrop and the ministers being the most powerful, they disarmed and imprisoned Mrs.Hutchinson's adherents.

She, like Roger Williams, was banished." "Dear Grandfather, did they drive the poor woman into the woods ?" exclaimed little Alice, who contrived to feel a human interest even in these discords of polemic divinity.
"They did, my darling," replied Grandfather; "and the end of her life was so sad you must not hear it.