She thinks it will not hurt her to come, if so be that it is as we hope, and that she has in her heart for him the same love as he has for her." "Oh, she has! she has!" cried Dorcas, fired with sudden illumination of mind about many things that perplexed her before.
"Her heart is just breaking for him! "Prithee, good madam, let me go and call her.

They say that she is of little use in the house now, being weak and weeping, and too sad at heart to work as heretofore.

They can well spare her on such an errand, and methinks it will save her life as well as his.

Let me but go and tell her the news." "Go, child, go.

Lovers be the biggest fools in all this world of fools! And if the women be the bigger fools, 'tis but because they were meant to be fitting companions for the men! "Go to, child!--bring her here, and let us see what she says to this mad errand of this mad boy.
"And you, young sir, whilst your sister is gone, tell me all you saw and heard in the pest house! Marry, I like your spirit in going thither! It is the one place I long to see myself; only I am too old to go gadding hither and thither after fine sights!" Joseph was quite willing to indulge the old lady's morbid curiosity as to the sights he had seen yesterday and today, as he had journeyed back into the city in the guise of a market lad.