The witness below thought she even saw them shrink terrified at the spectacle offered by the hideous assemblage of which they found themselves part.

Slight reasons, certainly, to make her heart beat faster, and draw her attention to them exclusively; but so they did.
The two remained by the stone awhile; then they moved slowly, painfully, and with much fear towards the well, whereat several voices were raised to stop them; yet they kept on.

The drawer of water picked up some pebbles, and made ready to drive them back.
The company cursed them.

The greater company on the hill shouted shrilly, "Unclean, unclean!" "Surely," thought Amrah of the two, as they kept coming--"surely, they are strangers to the usage of lepers." She arose, and went to meet them, taking the basket and jar.
The alarm at the well immediately subsided.
"What a fool," said one, laughing, "what a fool to give good bread to the dead in that way!" "And to think of her coming so far!" said another.

"I would at least make them meet me at the gate." Amrah, with better impulse, proceeded.