Toilers of the Sea Part I Book 1 Chapter III - For Your Wife When You Marry

In which a mysterious woman, known to the locals as Gilliatt, settles in the haunted and weather-beaten house of the Bû de la Rue on the rugged shores of Guernsey, raising a child in solitary seclusion and cultivating the land in quiet defiance of curiosity and gossip. As the years pass and the child's mother dies, the young man, inheriting her sparse estate, retreats deeper into solitude by the sea, finding in nature a melancholy companion to his isolated existence.