'As she pleased.
'The gentlewoman stept out for some, and returning on a sudden, she observed the sweet little fugitive endeavouring to restrain a violent burst of grief to which she had given way in the little interval.
'However, when the tea came, she made the landlady sit down with her, and asked her abundance of questions, about the villages and roads in the neighbourhood.
'The gentlewoman took notice to her, that she seemed to be troubled in mind.
'Tender spirits, she replied, could not part with dear friends without concern.'
She meant me, no doubt.
'She made no inquiry about a lodging, though by the sequel, thou'lt observe, that she seemed to intend to go no farther that night than Hampstead. But after she had drank two dishes, and put a biscuit in her pocket, [sweet soul! to serve for her supper, perhaps,] she laid down half-a-crown; and refusing change, sighing, took leave, saying she would proceed towards Hendon; the distance to which had been one of her questions.
'They offered to send to know if a Hampstead coach were not to go to Hendon that evening.
'No matter, she said—perhaps she might meet the chariot.'
Another of her feints, I suppose: for how, or with whom, could any thing of this sort have been concerted since yesterday morning?