The Silent Woman by Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys

It was midday before the master of the Inn returned and brought with him an undertaker, who was accompanied, in turn, by a melancholy, red-eyed youth as assistant. These individuals stayed on, and appeared to make all necessary arrangements for the ceremony.

Rufus kept out of the way as much as possible from a sense of delicacy, which, had he known it, was quite lost upon his host. He made no comment on finding the young fellow had stayed on, but absented himself from meals, as if no way desirous of his company. With nightfall Rufus wondered how the Inn was to accommodate such an addition to its usual inmates. He begged Moll to take his room for herself, but she refused.