CHAPTER III 

The brig sailed on a Monday morning in spring; but Joanna did not witness its departure. She could not bear the sight that she had been the means of bringing about. Knowing this, her husband told her overnight that they were to sail some time before noon next day hence when, awakening at five the next morning, she heard them bustling about downstairs, she did not hasten to descend, but lay trying to nerve herself for the parting, imagining they would leave about nine, as her husband had done on his previous voyage. When she did descend she beheld words chalked upon the sloping face of the bureau; but no husband or sons. In the hastily-scrawled lines Shadrach said they had gone off thus not to pain her by a leave-taking; and the sons had chalked under his words: 'Good- bye, mother!' 

She rushed to the quay, and looked down the harbour towards the blue rim of the sea, but she could only see the masts and bulging sails of the _Joanna_; no human figures. ''Tis I have sent them!' she said wildly, and burst into tears. In the house the chalked 'Good-bye' nearly broke her heart. But when she had re-entered the front room, and looked across at Emily's, a gleam of triumph lit her thin face at her anticipated release from the thraldom of subservience. 

To do Emily Lester justice, her assumption of superiority was mainly a figment of Joanna's brain. That the circumstances of the merchant's wife were more luxurious than Joanna's, the former could not conceal; though whenever the two met, which was not very often now, Emily endeavoured to subdue the difference by every means in her power. 
Did Jane see the departure?
What was departing?
Was the brig on water?
Who was leaving?
When did she awake?
Did she get up when she awoke?
Why?
Did she expect to see them before they left?
Was she wrong?
What did she see instead?
Who wrote them?
What did they say?
Was she happy or sad about this?
Who was Emily?
Why was she triumphant?
What was Emily's last name?
Did Joanna feel inferior?
To whom?
What it reality?
What type of wife was Emily?
no
did not
The brig
The brig
yes
sailed 
the husband or sons
husband or sons
five in the morning
five 
no
did not hasten
her nerves
nerve herself
yes
 imagining they would leave about nine
yes
 no husband or sons
words chalked
words chalked
the sons
sons
'Good- bye, mother!'
 'Good- bye, mother!' 
sad
broke her heart
her neighbor
looked across at Emily's
from anticipation
anticipated 
Lester
Lester
yes
assumption of superiority
Emily Lester
 Emily Lester 
no
figment 
a merchant's wife
 merchant's wife 