“After your dinner get ready and go from me.”
“Will you give me what you promised?”
“I will give it.”
After dinner, when the gentlemen were gone, he told her to be going, and she stood up and took with her her own child as a load and laid it down outside the door. She came in and took the second child as her load and put it outside. She came and she said, “I believe yourself are the load that’s nearest to me.” And she threw her arms round him and took him out as her third load. “You are now my own,” said she, “and you cannot part from me.”
“Oh! I am content,” said he, “and I promise I will not part from you for ever.”
They lived together then, and she took her father into the house, and he was with her until he died. They had a long life after.
