“But what does this mean, Peggy?”
“I can’t lie alongside of thim.”
“Of them? I am puzzled. What do you mean?”
“I heard them colloguing about me, an’ I can’t do it, misthress.”
“Who are the people you are talking about, Peggy?”
“Thim Wyndhams, no less.”
“What! your own cousins?”
“Ah, my lady swate, they ain’t true cousins to me at all, at all. It’s with the people of the soil I ought to be, an’ not with ladies at all. I have nothing to say ag’in Molly; but Jess, she said I shouldn’t be in the Upper School, that Kitty should be in the Upper School, an’ that I’d bother her intirely.”
“You heard your cousins speaking? Was the door open?”
“I suppose so, a tweeny bit.”