. . . Ah, Mr.
Calhoun, she deserves what you did to save her, but you should not have
done it."
"She deserves all that any better man might do. Why don't you marry her
to some great man in your Republic? It would settle my trouble for me
and free her mind from anxiety. Mrs. Llyn, we are not children, you and
I. You know life, and so do I, and--"
She interrupted him. "Be sure of this, Mr. Calhoun, she knows life even
better than either of us. She is, and has always been, a girl of sense
and judgment. When she was a child she was my master, even in Ireland.
Yet she was obedient and faithful, and kept her head in all vexed things.
She will have her way, and she will have it as she wants it, and in no
other manner. She is one of the world's great women. She is unique.
Child as she is, she still understands all that men do, and does it.
Under her hands the estates in Virginia have developed even more than
under the hands of my brother. She controls like another Elizabeth.
She has made those estates run like a spool of thread, and she will
do the same here with Salem. Be sure of that.
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