But then, if so, methinks I would hate her (that is, me) more than ever.

Oh, it is a hard case when maids are angry!" "You speak of yourself, how you would do this or that; but my lady is other than you, and pitiful.

Did she not come all these leagues at a word from me, hearing that I was sick ?" "At a word from you, good youth! Nay, at a word from me! Did you speak of me in your letter to her father ?" "Nay!" said I.
"You did well.

And therefore it was that I wrote, for I knew she would move heaven and earth and the Maid or she would come when she heard of another lass being in your company.

Nay, trust me, we women understand each other, and she would ask the Maid, who lodged here with us, what manner of lass I was to look upon, and the Maid's answer would bring her." "You have been kind," I said.