His two daughters accompanied him.

It offered an admirable opportunity for a shopping expedition, a change of scene, and a peaceful solution of their perplexing and anomalous social relations with Devil's Ford.

In the first flush of gratitude to their father for this opportune holiday, something of harmony had been restored to the family circle that had of late been shaken by discord.
But their sanguine hopes of enjoyment were not entirely fulfilled.

Both Jessie and Christie were obliged to confess to a certain disappointment in the aspect of the civilization they were now reentering.

They at first attributed it to the change in their own habits during the last three months, and their having become barbarous and countrified in their seclusion.