2. What ended her new happiness?

What ended Esther happiness is her overhearing the conversation between Lawrence and Father Paul that Lawrence was going to up marrying Ida McIntosh, the Hudson’s Bay factor’s daughter. Father Paul convinced and explained to his nephew that he could not marry her because of her red skin and she is a pagan Indian, also due to the fact of the significant difference between both cultures.  Even though Father Paul knew that Esther was a good woman he couldn’t accept this union between the missionary’s nephew and a pagan Indian.

                After, Esther heard the whole conversation she became heart broken and started to think with repulsive anger and hatred towards Lawrence, Father Paul and the future engagement. She didn’t want the man she loved to be married to another woman, so as she tried to leave the house silently she found Lawrence sleeping on the couch as she looked upon him with such love. Thought’s of him marrying this other women angered her with such agony and then she began to think about killing him because if she couldn’t have him no one can. In her anger she pulled out a flint arrow that had snake venom on the arrows tip, she scratched Lawrence’s wrist twice and as he stirred she left the house silently. However, nobody could find who was responsible for Lawrence’s death even though she was suspected.

Esther’s happiness ended because she couldn’t handle the idea of being without her soul mate. As a result she ended killing the love of her life.