"Give my dutiful thanks to your master.

Tell him my husband's mother, old widow Malmayns, fancies herself attacked by the plague, and if he will be kind enough to visit her, she lodges in the upper attic of a baker's house, at the sign of the Wheatsheaf, in Little Distaff-lane, hard by." "I will not fail to deliver your message to the doctor," replied the man, as he took his departure.
Left alone with her husband a second time, Judith waited till she thought the man had got out of the cathedral, and then rising and taking the lamp, she repaired to the charnel, to make sure it was untenanted.
Not content with this, she stole out into Saint Faith's, and gazing round as far as the feeble light of her lamp would permit, called out in a tone that even startled herself, "Is any one lurking there ?" but receiving no other answer than was afforded by the deep echoes of the place, she returned to the vault.

Just as she reached the door, a loud cry burst upon her ear, and rushing forward, she found that her husband had wakened.
"Ah!" roared Malmayns, raising himself in bed, as he perceived her, "are you come back again, you she-devil?
Where is my mother?
Where is Kerrich?
What have you done with them ?" "They have both got the plague," replied his wife.

"They caught it from you.

But never mind them.