bit before he gathers the flower. You know my way with him.

MAY. And I know it too, Millie--Why, your tongue, 'tis very near as
sharp as when Aunt do speak.

ANNET. O Millie, take off these things--I cannot do it, that's the
truth.

MAY. [Looking out through the door.] There's Andrew a-coming over
the mill yard.

MILLIE. Here, sit down, Annet, with the back of you to the light.

[She pushes ANNET into a chair beneath the window.

MAY. Can I get into the cupboard and listen to it, Cousin Mill?

MILLIE. If you promise to bide quiet and to say naught of it
afterwards.

MAY. O I promise, I promise--I'll just leave a crack of the door
open for to hear well.

[MAY gets into the cupboard. MILLIE takes up ANNET'S new shawl and
puts it all over her.

MILLIE. No one will think that 'tisn't you, in the dusk.

ANNET. O Millie, what is it that you've got me to do?