Mary stayed with the widow helping her to wet handkerchiefs and to make bandages out of old linen.
When Selene began to breathe more calmly Hannah beckoned her assistant to come close to her and asked in a low voice.
"Can you stay here till early to-morrow, we must take it in turns to watch her, most likely for several nights--how hot this wound on her head is!" "Yes, I can stay, only I must tell my mother that she may not be frightened." "Quite right, and then you may undertake another commission for I cannot leave the poor child just now." "Her people will be anxious about her." "That is just where you must go; but no one besides us two must know who she is.

Ask for Selene's sister and tell her what has happened; if you see her father tell him that I am taking care of his daughter, and that the physician strictly forbids her moving or being moved.

But he must not know that Selene is one of us workers, so do not say a word about the factory before him.

If you find neither Arsinoe nor her father at home, tell any one that opens the door to you that I have taken the sick child in, and did it gladly.

But about the workshop, do your hear, not a word.