Reuben always thought a great deal of Mistress Gertrude--and she of him.

What of that ?" "Does she think much of him ?" asked Mary eagerly.

"I feared she had flouted his love!" "Nay, she worships the ground he treads on!" cried Joseph, who had a very sharp pair of eyes of his own, and a great liking for sweet-spoken Gertrude himself.

"It was madam, her mother, who flouted Reuben.

Gertrude is of different stuff.