You broke your word; and, therefore, I will do the same." "Yes, I have made it, you greyhound.

I have made it; and this very day I was going with you to a justice of the peace and have it signed, and then to-morrow we would have got married." "You have made the will, you round world of love ?" said Hodge tenderly, as with his long, withered, spindling arms he tried to clasp the gigantic waist of his beloved.

"You have made the will and declared me your heir?
Come, then, Gammer Gurton, come, let us go to the justice of the peace!" "But do you not see, then," said Gammer Gurton, with a tender, cat-like purr, "do you not see, then, that you rumple my frill when you hug me so?
Let me go, then, and help me find my needle quickly, for without the needle we cannot go to the justice of the peace." "What, without the needle not go to the justice of the peace ?" "No; for only see this hole which Gib, the cat, tore in my prettiest cap awhile ago, as I took the cap out of the box and laid it on the table.
Indeed I cannot go to the justice of the peace with such a hole in my cap! Search then, Hodge, search, so that I can mend my cap, and go with you to the justice of the peace!" "Lord God, where in the world can it be, the unlucky needle?
I must have it, I must find it, so that Gammer Gurton may take her will to the justice of the peace!" And in frantic desperation, Hodge searched all about on the floor for the lost needle, and Gammer Gurton stuck her large spectacles on her flaming red nose and peered about on the table.

So eager was she in the search, that she even let her tongue rest a little, and deep silence reigned in the room.
Suddenly this silence was broken by a voice; which seemed to come from the courtyard.

It was a soft, sweet voice that cried: "Hodge, dear Hodge, are you there?
Come to me in the court, only for a few minutes! I want to have a bit of a laugh with you!" It was as though an electric shock had passed through the room with that voice, and struck at the same time both Gammer Gurton and Hodge.
Both startled, and discontinuing the search, stood there wholly immovable, as if petrified.