“No! crusts and water in a corner stood: -

To have this plenty, and to wait so long,

And to be right too late, is doubly wrong:

Then, every day to see him totter by,

And to forbear - Oh! what a heart had I!”

“Blame me not, child; I tremble at the news.”

“Tis my own heart,” said Susan, “I accuse:

To have this money in my purse - to know

What grief was his, and what to grief we owe;

To see him often, always to conceive