My young heart was so full of him, so full....

Even when they forced me to wed another, and after I had become a widow." The last words had been scarcely audible, and she rested some time ere she continued: "Hosea knows all this, except how anxious I was when he was in the field, and how I longed for him ere he returned.

At last, at last he came home, and how I rejoiced! But he, Hosea...?
That woman--Ephraim told me so--that tall, arrogant woman summoned him to Pithom.

But he returned, and then....

Oh, Nun, your son...