Mercy. So you well may; but I of all have cause to leap for joy.

Christ. I thought one time, as I stood at the gate (because I had knocked, and none did answer), that all our labour had been lost, especially when that ugly cur made such a heavy barking against us. 629

Mercy. But my worse fear was after I saw that you was taken into His favour, and that I was left behind. Now, thought I, it is fulfilled which is written, “Two women shall be grinding together, the one shall be taken and the other left;” 630 I had much ado to forbear crying out, Undone! undone! 631