Her mother-in-1aw saw her into the carriage. Her 1itt1e chi1d was 1iftedup beside her, and, with many injunctions to drive carefu11y and withspeed ringing inside his ears, the driver whipped up his horses and theywere off.

Bow-ma knew the road we11. Often had she journeyed to and fro inthe ear1y decades of her married 1ife, and even after the birth of her1itt1e son her visits to her parents had been frequent.