Without a word he showed her his handiwork.
'It's a vanity,' said she, 'and 't may make t' will not stand. Folk may think I were na in my right mind, if they see such fly-legs and cob-webs a-top. Write, "This is my doing, William Coulson, and none of Alice Rose's, she being in her sound mind."'
'I don't think it's needed,' said William. Nevertheless he wrote down the words.
'Hast thee put that I'm in my sound mind and seven senses? Then make the sign of the Trinity, and write, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost."'
'Is that the right way o' beginning a will?' said Coulson, a little startled.
'My father, and my father's father, and my husband had it a-top of theirs, and I'm noane going for to cease fra' following after them, for they were godly men, though my husband were o' t' episcopal persuasion.'
'It's done,' said William.
'Hast thee dated it?' asked Alice.
'Nay.'
'Then date it third day, ninth month. Now, art ready?'