For, you shall note, she uttered no one word

Of love more to her husband, though he wept

Plenteously, waxed importunate in prayer—

Folly's old fashion when its seed bears fruit.

I think she judged that she had bought the ware

O' the seller at its value,—nor praised him

Nor blamed herself, but, with indifferent eye,

Saw him purse money up, prepare to leave

The buyer with a solitary bale—

True purple—but in place of all that coin,