"Alas, alas! and did I not kneel and entreat my dearest husband to heed the words of those good men if he would not mine?  How happy we might have been, even in a hut among the savages!  And you, too, Dick," she said tenderly, "you would have liked well to follow Master Perrient's leading; and my dear husband was ready to have you go, seeing all he and Sir Gyles Perrient had set their minds upon for your happiness."