Through the stillness the distant surf along the "ocean side" of the Cape growled and moaned and the fog bell at the lighthouse clanged miserably.

Along the walk opposite Didama's--the more popular side of the road--shadowy figures passed at long intervals, children going to and from school, people on errands to the store, and the like.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon before a visitor came again to the Coffin front gate, entered the yard and rapped at the side door.
Keziah opened the door.
"Halloa!" she exclaimed.

"Back, are you?
I begun to think you'd been scared away for good." Grace laughed as she entered.
"Well, auntie," she said, "I don't wonder you thought I was scared.
Truly, I didn't think it was proper for me to stay.

First Kyan and then Cap'n Elkanah, and both of them expressing their wishes to see you alone so--er--pointedly.