For some weeks there were panic and terror everywhere.
My lover wanted to marry me and carry me away out of the danger; but that I would not hear of.

It was enough that to please him I must shut myself away in a selfish isolation.

If I had been a free woman I would have insisted on going, as my godmother had gone, while yet the help was wanted.

During those weeks I was cut off from the comfort of her presence, for even when she was no longer needed she was in quarantine lest she should have taken the infection.
I will say that the Dawsons gave generously of their money for the aid of the people.
When we knew first of the outbreak and heard that Mary Champion was in the thick of it, my lover was moody and silent for a while even when he was with me.
I remember once that he kicked at a coal which had fallen from the fire and lay on the hearth, and he frowned heavily.
"I ought to have been there, Bawn," he said, "and it isn't that I was afraid.

Good Lord! I should think not.