He was sure she had not abandoned the idea which, at first, had so excited her interest and raised her hopes.

She seemed to him to be still under a strong nervous strain, to speak and act as if under repressed excitement; but she had asked him to leave the affair to her, to let her think it over, so of course he could do or say nothing until she had spoken.

But he wondered and speculated a good deal and was vaguely troubled.

When Captain Sam Hunniwell called he did not again refer to his possible candidate for the position now held by Luther Small.

And, singularly enough, the captain himself did not mention the subject.
But one morning almost two weeks after Jed's discussion with the young widow she and Captain Hunniwell came into the windmill shop together.