I was to go to Boston with the Captain to meet her and bring her home.

I need not describe that meeting.

With my mother's hand in mine once more, all the long years we had been parted appeared like a dream.

Very dear to me was the sight of that slender, pale woman passing from room to room, and lending a patient grace and beauty to the saddened life of the old house.
Everything was changed with us now.

There were consultations with lawyers, and signing of papers, and correspondence; for my father's affairs had been left in great confusion.