“No marvel, Lady,” replied Leuesa, doing as she was requested. “I am sure you have had a tiring day. But your profession was lovely! I never saw a prettier scene in my life.”
“Ay, marriages and funerals are both sights for the world. Which was it most like, thinkest thou?”
“O Lady! a marriage, of course. Has it not made you the bride of Jesu Christ?”
Leuesa fancied she heard a faint sigh from the chimney-corner; but Derette gave no answer.
Note 1. The alner, or alms-bag, was the largest sort of purse used in the Middle Ages.