"Never mind. Her Christian name, and she herself also, are a good deal to me. As to blabbing, I never blab; I saw her, she spoke to me; I slept at the lodge; I returned home to-day."
"You walked home?"
"Yes, and I am dead tired; I want to go to bed now."
"You can't for a few minutes. I have a few words to say first. Josephine, I have always been a good grandfather to you."
"Perhaps you have done your best, Grand-dad, but your best has not been much. I am clothed after a fashion, and fed after a style, and educated!" she filliped her slender fingers scornfully; "educated! I belong to the self-taught. Still, after your lights, you have been a good Grand-dad. Now, what is all this preamble about? I can scarcely keep my eyes open. If you are not quick your words will soon fall unregarded, for I shall be in the arms of that god of delight, Morpheus."
"I have something very important to say, child. I want to lay a command upon you."
"What is that?"
"You are not to act the spy on the Bertrams again."
"The spy? What do you mean?"
"What I say. You are not to do it. I have made arrangements, and the Bertrams are to be unmolested. I have given my oath, and you must abide by it."