the midnight sun
Nor did he ever regret the gift . `` Jean entered my house and she made it a home , '' he said to his friends . No words could have better explained the position . In the winter they entertained with a noble hospitality ; in the summer they sailed far north to the mystical isles of the Western seas ; to Orkney and Zetland and once even as far as the North Cape by the light of the midnight sun . So the time passed wonderfully away , until Jean was thirty-two years old . The simple , unlettered girl had then become a woman of great culture and of perfect physical charm . Wise in many ways , she yet kept her loving heart , and her uncle delighted in her .