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Mary's Lunnon father, which they'd put clean out o' their minds, arrived down from Lunnon with the law on his side, sayin' he'd take his daughter back to Lunnon, after all. I was working for Mus' Dockett at Pounds Farm that summer, but I was obligin' Jim that evenin' muckin' out his pig-pen. I seed a stranger come traipsin' over the bridge agin' Wickenden's door-stones.
'The brook's got up a piece since morning, said Jabez. 'Sounds like's if she was over Wickenden's door-stones. Jesse listened, too. There was a growl in the brook's roar as though she worried something hard. 'Yes. She's over Wickenden's door-stones, he replied. 'Now she'll flood acrost Alder Bay an' that'll ease her. 'She won't ease Jim Wickenden's hay none if she do, Jabez grunted.
'But I always allowed Mary was his lawful child, like, said Jabez, after Jesse had spoken for a while. ''Tain't so.... Jim Wickenden's woman she never made nothing. She come out o' Lewes with her stockin's round her heels, an' she never made nor mended aught till she died. He had to light fire an' get breakfast every mornin' except Sundays, while she sowed it abed.
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