"Surely we are not to remain here at the beck of this woman!"
The one-eyed sibyl nodded an affirmative. This, at any rate, helped them to an easier mode of communication, finding that she was not deaf, as they had hitherto supposed.
"And whither shall we proceed?"
The woman here pointed to a narrow lane on the right of the main road they were pursuing.
"Truly that seems but an indifferent path. Wherefore should we turn in thither?" inquired Ellen.
Again the prophetess pointed to her own breast, and then at the bosom of the invalid.
"By this token I understand that in so doing I am to expect some relief."
Again nodded the officious intruder.
"But how shall that relief be obtained?"
The woman here lifted up her hand, again pointing towards the path by which they should proceed.