Well, she's a blessed angel on earth and after this one night I'll cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven." But no, no 't would kill her to think it. Methought as she spoke there was trouble in her face, as if a dream had warned her what work is to be done to-night. "What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand! She talks of dreams, too. "Poor little Faith!" thought he, for his heart smote him. So they parted and the young man pursued his way until, being about to turn the corner by the meeting-house, he looked back and saw the head of Faith still peeping after him with a melancholy air, in spite of her pink ribbons. "Say thy prayers, dear Faith, and go to bed at dusk, and no harm will come to thee." "Then God bless you!" said Faith, with the pink ribbons "and may you find all well when you come back." What, my sweet, pretty wife, cost thou doubt me already, and we but three months married?"
My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must needs be done 'twixt now and sunrise. "My love and my Faith," replied young Goodman Brown, "of all nights in the year, this one night must I tarry away from thee. Pray tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year." A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts that she's afeard of herself sometimes. "Dearest heart," whispered she, softly and rather sadly, when her lips were close to his ear, "prithee put off your journey until sunrise and sleep in your own bed to-night. And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap while she called to Goodman Brown. Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem Village but put his head back after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife.
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