Hester was away , or , of course , this would never have happened .<br>She had gone for a month 's visit to distant friends .<br>In that month I lived a lifetime .<br>Hugh Blair courted me as the other girls in Newbridge were courted .<br>He took me out driving and came to see me in the evenings , which we spent for the most part in the garden .<br>I did not like the stately gloom and formality of our old Meredith parlor , and Hugh never seemed to feel at ease there .<br>His broad shoulders and hearty laughter were oddly out of place among our faded , old-maidish furnishings .
Hester was traveling for a month.
( z1 travel :ARG0 ( z2 person :name ( z3 name :op "Hester" ) ) :duration ( z4 temporal-quantity :quant 1 :unit ( z5 month ) ) )