"No mother, hath she?--and very like none to mother her. Ah, now I conceive her looks." "I marvel what you would be at, Pandora. Why, you and I have no mother, but I never mewled and moaned thereafter." "No, Gertrude, I think you never did." "Aunt Grena hath seen to all we lacked, hath not she?" "Aunt is very kind, and I cast no doubt she hath seen to all you lacked." Pandora's tone was very quiet, with a faint pathos in it. "Why, Dorrie, what lacked you that I did not?" responded Gertrude, turning her laughing face towards her sister. "Nothing that I could tell you, True. What manner of man is this Roger Hall?" "A right praisable man, Father saith, if it were not for one disorder in him, that he would fain see amended: and so being, Dorrie, I scarce think he shall be a-paid to have you much acquaint with his little maid, sithence he hath very like infected her with his foolish opinions." "What, is he of the new learning?" Gertrude failed to see the sudden light which shot into Pandora's eyes, as she dropped them on the cushion in the endeavour to smooth an entangled corner of the fringe. "That, and no less. You may guess what Father and Aunt reckon thereof." "Father was that himself, Gertrude, only five years gone, when I went to dwell in Lancashire." "Pan, my dear heart, I do pray thee govern thy tongue. It maybe signifies but little what folks believe up in the wilds and forests yonder, and in especial amongst the witches: but bethink thee, we be here within a day's journey or twain of the Court, where every man's eyes and ears be all alive to see and hear news. What matters it what happed afore Noah went into the ark? We be all good Catholics now, at the least. And, Pan, we desire not to be burned; at all gates, I don't, if you do." "Take your heart to you, sister; my tongue shall do you none ill. I can keep mine own counsel, and have ere now done the same." "Then, if you be so discreet, you can maybe be trusted to make acquaintance with Christie. But suffer not her nor Roger to win you from the true Catholic faith." "I think there is little fear," said Pandora quietly.