So no man speaks openly of them now, though they still ply their trade in secret." "Hast thou ever been to one thyself, Cherry ?" Her face was all in a glow.

She clung closer to Cuthbert's arm.
"Chide me not, and tell not my father; but I went with Rachel once, when she went to have a wart charmed that was causing her much vexation.

I asked nothing of the dame myself; but she took my hand and looked into my eyes, and she nodded her head and chuckled and made strange marks upon a bit of paper, which she said was casting my horoscope.

And then she told me that I had an ugly lover that I loved not, but that another more gently born should come in time, and that we should love each other well and be faithful through all, and that I should end by being a lady with all I wanted at command." And there Cherry stopped, blushing and palpitating with happiness and shy joy; whilst Cuthbert, struck by this very remarkable and original specimen of fortune telling, began to think he might do worse than consult this same wise woman who had gauged his sweetheart's case so fairly.
He himself had no scruples.

He had a strong belief in necromancy, and had never heard that there was sin in its practice.