"Hold, will you, Charles Stevens, until I speak to the one who accompanies you."
The young widow was greatly excited, and her voice trembled with emotion.
"Who is that woman?" asked Cora, trembling with agitation.
"Sarah Williams."
"I have seen her."
"Where?"
"At church. She was the one who upbraided Goody Nurse for being a witch."
Cora was greatly agitated, as she saw Sarah Williams, with demoniacal fury, hastening toward her. Surely she would do her no injury, for Cora was not conscious of ever having given her offence.
"Have no fears, Cora, she will not harm you. I trow it is some commonplace matter of which she would speak."
Thus assured, she had almost ceased to dread the approach of the woman, when Sarah Williams suddenly cried, in a voice trembling with fury: