PRELUDE

by Agnew, F.E.M.

Set in an eating house and bakery in Bethlehem, where Mary of Nazareth seeks lodging for the night. There she gains the sympathy of the inn-keeper’s wife who comes to the bakery to buy bread. She takes Mary to the stable leaving the mistress of the bakery shaking her head at all the fuss being made about one woman about to have a baby. She remarks as she counts her money ‘Anyone would think it was going to change the world’.