What of this girl Dorcas?
Is not she the one who is waiting maid to that mad old witch woman in Allhallowes, Lady Scrope ?" "That may well be.

I saw her come forth from a grim portal hard by Allhallowes the Less.

I knew not who it was, but I gave chase, and ere she put her foot upon the bridge, I had plucked the hood from off her pretty curls, and had kissed her soundly on both cheeks.
And at that she gave me such a cuff as I feel yet, and ran like a fawn, and I after her, till she vanished within the door of our neighbour's house; and then it came to me that it was Dorcas, grown wondrous pretty since I last took note of her.

If she comes always home at this hour, I'll waylay my lady again and take toll of her." "You had better be careful not to let Reuben get wind of it" said Gertrude, with suppressed anger in her voice.

"If he were to catch you insulting his sister, it is more than a slap or a cuff you would get." Frederick burst into a boisterous laugh.
"What! do you think a dirty shopman would dare lay hands upon me?
I'd run him through the body as soon as look at him.