Anything else that I can serve you with to-day?
We've got some new women's shawls and hats come in.

Won't you just step here and have a look at them?
No?
Well, next time; but there ain't one of our women as doesn't want one of them new bonnets." Susannah went out into the spring on the outskirts of the town.

The birds were singing; everywhere the dandelions swelled out their happy tufted breasts to the sunshine; even a long worm that she noticed crawling lazily in the heat spoke to her of enjoyment of some sort.

Her own heart leaped, and she thought it was in answer to the spring.

She forgot the dire fates with which she had been grappling, forgot to hate and to grieve.
In the small wooden room that she shared with Elvira, while the invalid slept, she wrote to Ephraim, telling him all that had befallen her.