She said, "Though we should both live to see the last day, it is the
end."
Then he went, with his head bowed down. And when he was gone, for the
first time in all her life she wept aloud.
* * * * *
Some time passed, and matters waxed ever hotter and hotter 'twixt
Cavaliers and Roundheads, till one night there rode up a man to the
castle gate with papers for Lord Ernle, and the long and the short o't
was this: His lordship was ordered to ride forth to war, and my little
lady only three months his wife. Now when this blow fell upon them they
were all at meat in this very hall, for ofttimes in cold weather they
dined here, even as thy father and mother do now, on account o' th'
greater warmth.
And when my lord had glimpsed at the papers he did start to his feet,
saying, "Where is the man who brought these papers?"