"Should we send for the watch-maker ?" Miss Grizzel shook her head.
"'Twould be worse than useless.

Were we to search the world over, we could find no one to put it right.

Fifty years and more, Tabitha, fifty years and more, it has never missed an hour! We are getting old, Tabitha, our day is nearly over; perhaps 'tis to remind us of this." Miss Tabitha did not reply.

She was weeping silently.

The old ladies seemed to have forgotten the presence of their niece, but Griselda could not bear to see their distress.