“Lor, Miss Kitty, how you frightened me!”
“You were asleep.”
“Sleep? Me, miss? That I’m sure I wasn’t.”
“You were, Jessie, and I heard father tell you to sit up till Cousin Lindon came home.”
“Well, that’s what I’m a-doin’ of, miss, as plain as I can,” said Jessie.
She spoke in an ill-used tone, for it had been a busy day consequent upon a certain amount of extra cleaning, but Kitty did not notice it.
“I shall stay till I hear my cousin’s knock,” she said; “and then run upstairs. I hope he will not be long.”
“So do I, Miss Kitty,” said the woman with a yawn. “What’s made him so late? Is it because of the trouble at the yard?”
“Yes, Jessie; but you must not talk about it.”
“But I heerd as Master Don took some money.”