Maybe we've been too far.' Hester almost started.
'No!' said she, 'it's only my headache which is worse to-night.

It has been bad all day; but since I came out it has felt just as if there were great guns booming, till I could almost pray 'em to be quiet.

I am so weary o' th' sound.' She stepped out quickly towards home after she had said this, as if she wished for neither pity nor comment on what she had said..