"Let us know that thou art safe on board, and leave thy mistress to us.

If she come not peaceably, we must needs carry her down.
"Come, Reuben, we must not tarry within these walls more than five minutes longer.

The fire is approaching on all sides.

I fear me, both the Allhallowes will be victims next." Springing up the staircase, now thick with smoke, father and son emerged at last upon a little leaden platform, and saw at a short distance from them the old woman whom they sought, tossing her arms wildly up and down, and bursting into awful laughter when anything more terrible than usual made itself apparent.
They could not get quite up to her without actually crawling along an unguarded ridge of masonry, as she must have done to attain her present position; but they approached as near as was possible, and called to her urgently: "Madam, we have saved your goods as far as it was possible; now we come to save you.

Lose not a moment in escaping from the house.