The Dodds were dead.

For twenty year they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard.

The townfolk still spoke of them kindly.
The keeper of the alehouse, where David had smoked his pipe, regretted him regularly, and Mistress Kitty, Mrs.Dodd's maid, whose trim figure always looked well in her mistress's gowns, was inconsolable.

The Hardins were in America.

Raby was aristocratically gouty; Mrs.Raby, religious.