[Susan comes up. During the next sentences Laura takes one bunch of vegetables after another from the basket, smoothing each in turn with a fond caressing movement.
Susan. Did you call, mistress?
Julia. Yes, Susan. That I did.
Susan. Can I help you in any way, Miss Julia?
Julia. Yes, and that you can. You have got to run quickly back to the farm.
Susan. Be it got terrible late, mistress?
Julia. ’Tis not only that. You have got to find your master and tell him to expect a visit from me in less than an hour’s time from now. Do you understand?
Susan. O, yes, mistress, and that I do—to tell master as you be coming along after he as fast as you can run.
Julia. Well—I should not have put it in that way, but ’tis near enough may be. So off, and make haste, Susan.
Susan. Please, mistress, I could make the words have a more loving sound to them if you do wish it.