Nancy Pembroke in Nova Scotia

A young woman and her friends spend a summer traveling along the Nova Scotia coast; the episodic narrative follows their steamer voyage with changing weather and seasickness, visits to Halifax, Digby, and Yarmouth, rambling shore excursions, social gatherings, letters and postal errands, and a puzzling episode in which the central figure briefly goes missing before reappearing. Scenes emphasize local landscape and customs, the pleasures and inconveniences of travel, youthful camaraderie, and small moral lessons about responsibility and adaptability.