The Centurion's Wife
“Once awake she was again seized by the headache. Leah took to spending her nights at the foot of her mistress’s bed. As soon as the whimpers began, Leah rose to give the governor’s wife another measure of the medicine. Procula continued her weak protests, speaking in broken tones about the prophet now lost to the grave.The other servants made no comment when Leah stumbled back to the women’s sleeping quarters after serving Procula her breakfast and morning dose. The senior cook, a bitter woman who normally never had a kind word for anyone, gently awakened Leah personally in time to serve Procula her other meals. When Leah did sleep, it was in scattered snatches, starting awake from dreams in which she thought she heard the mistress calling to her.This day, it seemed as though Leah had scarcely laid her head upon the pillow before the cook was touching her shoulder. “You must come now.”“The mistress calls for me?”But the cook was already headed back through the door. “To the kitchen.
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