Why, whenever she was with us she would get me in a corner and talk of nothing but him.

I thought they would but wait for the plague to be overpast to wed each other!" Mary stood with her hands locked together, thinking deeply.
"Joseph," she said, "if it were a matter of saving Reuben's life, think you that Mistress Gertrude would come hither to my house and help me to nurse him back to health ?" Joseph's eyes flashed with eager excitement.
"I am certain sure she would!" he answered.
"Ah, but how to let her know!" cried Mary, pressing her hands together in perplexity.

"Alas for days like these! How shall any one get a letter safely delivered to her in time?
It may be that if we tarry the fever will have swept him off.

It is fever of the mind rather than the body, and it is hard to minister to the mind diseased, without the one healing medicine." "Hold! I have a plan," cried Joseph, whose wits were sharpened by the pressing nature of the business in hand; "listen, and I will expound it.

Tomorrow morning I will sally forth with a barrow laden with eggs, vegetables, and fruit; and I will enter the city as one of the country folks for the market, with whom none interfere at the barriers.