Annet. O Millie, take off these things—I cannot do it, that’s the truth.
May. [Looking out through the door.] There’s Andrew a-coming over the mill yard.
Millie. Here, sit down, Annet, with the back of you to the light.
[She pushes Annet into a chair beneath the window.
May. Can I get into the cupboard and listen to it, Cousin Mill?
Millie. If you promise to bide quiet and to say naught of it afterwards.
May. O I promise, I promise—I’ll just leave a crack of the door open for to hear well.
[May gets into the cupboard. Millie takes up Annet’s new shawl and puts it all over her.
Millie. No one will think that ’tisn’t you, in the dusk.
Annet. O Millie, what is it that you’ve got me to do?