Meg blushed as she answered, "Yes." She had hardly ever heard herself called by her new name.
"She won't be but a minute. Sit down, will yer. You didn't 'spect to find some one here, by your looks?"
"No," answered Meg.
The invalid shook her head.
"Ah, to think now I should see you before I've been made straight for the day, after all!"
Meg did not reply; but thinking it might be unkind to go back, she sat down on the edge of a chair, and tried to think of something to say.
"I've heard of you before to-day," said her mother-in-law's lodger, with an attempt at a smile.
"Have you?" asked Meg.
"And what's more, I've done for you what I wouldn't ha' believed any one would ha' persuaded me to do. But it was all along of Jem's kindness, and Mrs. Seymour's kindness."
"For me?" echoed Meg.