{"Spectator" = Susan Fenimore Cooper has been forgetful; the sailor, it was stated in Chapter 12, had a copy of Volume three; Addison's essays on Paradise Lost, that Harry remembered reading, are in fact contained in Volumes four and five; but we are now told that it is Volumes six and eight that are missing from the shelf!}
"It was in March these two strangers were here, you say,
Malvina?" observed Mrs. Stanley.
"Yes, ma'am; it was in March, when the roads were very bad."
"What sort of looking persons were they, and how old should you have called them?" asked Hazlehurst.
"One was a tall and slim gentleman, with curly hair; the other looked kind o' rough, he was stout, and had a red face; they wasn't very young, nor very old."
"Tell us, if you please, all you remember about their visit, just as it passed," said Harry.
"Well, it happened Mrs. Jones was sick in her room when they called; they wanted to see the house, saying they knew the family very well. I asked them to sit down in the hall, while I went to tell Mrs. Jones; she hadn't any objections, and told me to show them the rooms they wanted to see. So I took them over the house—first the parlours, then the other rooms."
"Did they ask to see the bed-rooms?"
"Yes, sir; they went over all the house but the garret; they went into the kitchen and the pantry."
"Did they stay some time?"