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THREE:"I was going to say, my Lord, that poor Stephen here has called nobody to speak to his good character, but may be it isn't wanting, for every man here, except one would go a hundred miles to say a good word for him��But my Lord, I was thinking how much money that house of Holgrave's cost in building��Let me see��about twenty florences, and then at a shilling a head from all of us here," looking round upon the yeomen, "would just build it up again��I for one would not care about doing the smith's work at half price, and there's Denby the mason, and Cosgrave the carpenter, say they would do their work at the same rate��By St. Nicholas! (using his favorite oath) twelve florences would be more than enough��Well then my Lord, the business might be settled,"��and he paused as if debating whether he should go farther.She had been a fool, and now she was paying the price of folly, which is always so much heavier than the price of sin. Here she was at twenty-five, prematurely old, exhausted, sick of life, and utterly alone. There[Pg 104] was no one to turn to in her wretchedness. Her neighbours were incapable of giving her real help or sympathy, Mrs. Backfield invariably took Reuben's part and resented the slightest criticism of him, old Gasson was hard and selfish, and not particularly interested in his daughter.