"Judith, what can you mean?"
"If you only knew, perhaps you would not go on this crusade."
"Whither then? I must go."
"To Wallingford."
"But that I can never do. I have broken with them and their den of darkness for ever."
"Nay, nay; it may be all thine own one day, and thou mayst let light into it."
"What can you mean? You distract me."
"I cannot say. Ah!—a good thought. You may look—I didn't say I wouldn't show. See, Osric, I will show thee what things were on thy baby-person when thou wast brought home. Here—look."
She rummaged in her old chest and brought forth—a ring with a seal, a few articles of baby attire, a little red shoe, a small frock, and a lock of maiden's hair.
"Look at the ring."