"Oh, I was glad when I saw your light shine out," she added, impetuously.

"I didn't know what to do or where to go, and we were so tired! I very nearly lay down under the hedge, 'cause I felt as if I couldn't drag another step." "It'd have been better for you if you hadn't seen it, but had gone on till you came to the vicarage." "I don't think so," said Huldah, emphatically.

"P'raps the servants would have driven us off,--anyway, they couldn't have been kinder than you was--" "It wouldn't have been better for me if you'd gone on," added Mrs.
Perry, gratefully.

"I shouldn't have had any hens now, if it hadn't been for you, and I'd have been scared to death.

I think I will go up to bed now," she added presently, in a weary voice.