The Nurse Begged the Cause of Grief

The old nurse woman urged and urged the girl to hide no more from her long-trusted nurse what caused her grief. She pressed the weeping girl against her breast and as she held her in her feeble arms she said, sweetheart I know you are in love. In this affair I am entirely yours for your good service. You must have no fear. Your father cannot learn of it from me. Just like a mad girl Mira sprang away and with her face deep buried in a couch sobbed out. Go from me or stop asking me my cause of grief. It is a crime of shame I cannot tell it.