XXXVI
"Ah! nurse, a favour do for me!"
"Command me, darling, what you choose"
"Do not—you might—suspicious be;
But look you—ah! do not refuse."
"I call to witness God on high—"
"Then send your grandson quietly
To take this letter to O— Well!
Unto our neighbour. Mind you tell—
Command him not to say a word—
I mean my name not to repeat."
"To whom is it to go, my sweet?