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 at the window of her luxurious room . It brought to her the tang of the salt wastes and filled her heart with a great , bitter-sweet yearning . She was more beautiful than ever . In the year that had passed she had blossomed out to a gracious fulfilment of womanhood . Even the Camerons had wondered at her swift adaptation to her new surroundings . She seemed to have put Racicot behind her as one puts by an old garment . In everything she had held her own royally . Her adopted parents were proud of her beauty and her nameless , untamed charm . They had lavished every indulgence upon her . In those few short months she had lived more keenly and fully than in all her life before . The Nora Shelley who went away was not , so it would seem , the Nora Shelley who came back . But when she looked from her window to the waves and saw the star of the lighthouse and the blaze of the sunset in the window of the fishing-houses and heard the summons of the wind , something broke loose in her soul and overwhelmed her , like a wave of the sea . She must go at once -- at once -- at once . Not a moment could she wait . She was dressed for dinner , but with tingling fingers she threw off her costly gown and put on her dark travelling suit again . She left her hair as it was and knotted a crimson scarf about her head .
She would slip away quietly to the boathouse , get Davy to launch the little sailboat for her -- and then for a fleet skim over the XXXXX before that glorious wind !
Camerons Dalveigh Racicot Shelley harbour houseful left lighthouse months morning