Who came to thy relief?
and how camest thou hither so late ?" "I could not come before.

I dared not go forth by day, lest I bore about the seeds of the distemper.

The nurse came at three o'clock, and finding her patient already dead, wrapped her in a sheet, and said that a coffin would be sent at dark, and that the bearers would fetch her for burying when the cart came round, and that when I heard the bell ring I must call to them from the window and let them in.

I asked why the porter should not do that, but she told me that already every person in the house had fled.

My lady had fallen into an awful fright on hearing that one of her servants was smitten, and before any knowledge could have been received of it by the authorities, she had applied for and obtained a clean bill for herself and her household, and every one of them had fled.