"MOLL'S SINGIN' BROUGHT HER LUCK AND MAY BE YOURS WILL TOO" The months went over.

Huddy's "travelling" theatrical troupe had been paying a round of visits to various towns in the home counties, performing in innyards, barns, any place suitable for the purpose and where no objections were raised by the justices.

Actors and actresses were "rogues and vagabonds" when it suited prim puritans to call them so, and more than once Huddy and his company had to take a hurried departure from some town where play-acting was looked upon as ungodly and a device of Satan to ensnare the unsuspecting.
All this was in the day's work.

Lavinia thought nothing of it.

She had been in her youthful days harried from pillar to post and knew what it meant.