Witch In-Grain

Of late Michal had been much engrossed in the reading of the black-
letter books that Philosopher Bale brought from France. As you know I
am no Latinist--though once she had been earnest in her desire to
instruct me; but the open air had ever greater charms for me than the
dry precincts of a library. So I grudged the time she spent apart, and
throughout the spring I would have been all day at her side, talking
such foolery as lovers use. But ever she must steal away and hide
herself amongst dead volumes.