In him I saw my fortune.

That night he supped at my uncle's house and a week later he sought me in marriage.

My uncle would have bargained, but I had become a grown woman and silenced him.

With Willebald I did not chaffer, for I read his heart and knew that in a little he would be wax to me.

So we were wed, and I took to him no dowry but a ring which came to me from my forebears, and a brain that gold does not buy." The monkey by her side broke into a chattering.
"Peace, Peterkin," she said.