“You cannot be, to tell me such a tale as that, and think I will believe you. Yes, and I know who you are, now I look at you good,” she added.
“Who am I, then?”
“You are the man who came to the lady’s house yesterday and made yourself a nuisance.”
“A nuisance, did I?”
“Yes, a horrid one. Oh, I saw you before Lady did. I saw you coming up the walk to the house. When Lady saw you she took me and Ducky in the house.”
“Oh! she did?”
“Yes, she did that; and she was in the right of it, too, I reckon.”
“Why was she in the right of it?”
“Because she knowed you, and knowed you was not possessed of common sense.”
“Ah!”