The summer was waning, and no sickness had appeared; and of any other kind of calamity the people did not appear to dream.
The Master Builder had gone in as usual to the next house to have a talk with his neighbour.

But tonight he looked in vain for Dinah.
"She and Janet have both been summoned to a fine lady who is sick in a grand house nigh to St.Paul's.

Dr.Hooker fetched them thither this morning.

They will be well paid for their work, he says.

The lady has sickened of a fever, and some of her household took fright lest it should be the plague, albeit the symptoms are quite different.