In the beginning she admitted great homesickness , but after the first few letters she made no further mention of that . She wrote little of herself , but she described fully the places she had visited , the people she had met , the wonderful things she had seen . She sent affectionate messages to all her old friends and asked after all her old interests . But the letters came to be more and more like those of a stranger and one apart from the Racicot life , and the father and mother felt it . `` She 's changing , '' muttered old Nathan . `` It had to be so -- it 's well for her that it is so -- but it hurts . She ai n't ours any more . We 've lost the girl , wife , lost her forever . '' Rob Fletcher always came and listened to the letters in silence while the others buzzed and commented . Rob , so the Harbour folk said , was much changed . He had grown unsociable and preferred to stay home and read books rather than go a-visiting as did others . The Harbour folk shook their heads over this . There was something wrong with a man who read books when there was a plenty of other amusements . Jacob Radnor had read books all one winter and had drowned himself in the spring -- jumped overboard from his dory at the herring nets . And that was what came of books , mark you . The Camerons came later to Dalveigh the next summer , on account of John Cameron 's health , which was not good . It was the first of August before a host of servants came to put Dalveigh in habitable order , and a week later the family came . They brought a houseful of guests with them . At sunset on the day of her arrival Nora Shelley looked out cross the harbour to the fishing village . She was tired after her journey , and she had not meant to go over until the morning , but now she knew she must go at once .
Her mother was over there ; the old life called to her ; the northwest wind swept up the channel and whistled alluringly to her XXXXX the window of her luxurious room .
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