ISABEL. O but that is a beautiful blue flower. I will take the bunch upstairs. She is all dressed and ready for it. LUBIN. [_Putting it on the table_.] No—do you bide a moment here with me. [ISABEL _looks helplessly at_ LUBIN _who takes her hands slowly in his_. LUBIN. What are we going to do? ISABEL. I wish as we had never touched the seeds. LUBIN. O cursed seeds of love—Far better to have left all as ’twas yesterday in the morning. ISABEL. He has followed me like my shadow, courting and courting me hard and all the time, Lubin. LUBIN. She sought me out in the yard at day-break, and what I’d have given twenty years of life for yester eve I could have thrown into the stream this morning. ISABEL [_Sadly_.] So ’tis with my feelings. LUBIN. She has altered powerful, to my fancy, in these years. ISABEL. And Robert be differenter too from what I do remember. [_A long silence_. LUBIN. Have you thought as it might be in us two these changes have come about, Isabel? ISABEL. I was just the maid as ever I was until— LUBIN. And so was I unchanged, until I started travelling up on the same road as you, Isabel. [_For a few minutes they look gravely into one another’s eyes_. LUBIN. [_Taking_ ISABEL’S _hands_.] So that’s how ’tis with you and me. ISABEL. O Lubin—a poor serving maid like I am. LUBIN. I’ll have no one else in the whole world. ISABEL. What could I have seen in him, times gone by? LUBIN. And was it ever true that I did sit through a long Sunday her hand in mine? [_Another silence_. ISABEL. But how’s us ever to get out of the caddle where we be? LUBIN. [_Gaily_.] We’ll just run away off to the Fair as t’other servants did. ISABEL. And leave them in their hate for one another? No—’twould be too cruel. Us’ll run to the young mistress what knows all about them herbs. I count as there be seeds or sommat which could set the hearts of them two back in the right places again. Come— LUBIN. Have it your own way then. But ’twill have to be done very quickly if ’tis done at all. ISABEL. Us’ll fly over the ground like. [_She puts her hand impetuously in_ LUBIN’S _and they go out together_. _As they do so_, ISABEL’S _bonnet falls from her head and lies unheeded on the floor_. ACT III.—Scene 3. _A few minutes later_. LIZ _and_ JANE _wearing gay sprigged dresses and feathered bonnets_, _come to the room_. _They carry fans and handkerchiefs in their hands_. _It is seen that their gowns are not fastened at the back_. LIZ. Such a house I never heard tell of. Ring, ring at the bell and no one to come nigh. JANE. Being unused to bells, sister, maybe as us did pull them wrong or sommat. LIZ. I wish we’d had the gowns made different. JANE. To do up in the front—sensible like. [_They twist and turn in front of the glass on the wall_, _absorbed in their dress_, _they do not notice that_ JEREMY _has come in and is watching them sarcastically_.