“Have her down stairs directly!” continued the lady of the establishment, (for Fanny had gone up stairs,) as soon as Mr. Rowel had passed out of hearing. “A wicked hussy!—If she did not answer me everything straight forwards, I should know what to think of it, and what to do as well, that I should! But you can do as you like, Mrs. Clink.”
Colin's mother called Fanny down stairs again, and took her, followed by Miss Sower-soft, into the same room in which she had so recently held her colloquy with her uncle the doctor.