But the fainting was several times repeated, and, now three days ago, illness it was impossible to struggle against kept her to her bed.
'Well, I begged an' I prayed of her as she'd tell me where she belonged, and where her friends was.

But she could only cry an' say as she'd go away, and wouldn't be a burden.

'Don't talk silly, child,' I kep' sayin'.

'How can you go away in this state?
Unless you're goin' to your friends ?' But she said no, as she hadn't no friends to go to.

An' she cried so, it fair went to my heart, the poor thing! An' I begun to be that afraid as she'd die.