(Boy—smiling) "It wasn't much odds, as it turned out, sir."
(Morley) "No, no; but that doesn't alter the fact of your ability as groom. Now, tell me—there's a good fellow—who gave you that letter."
(Boy—still pleased) "Why, Miss Reeney, to be sure."
(Morley—excited) "What! Alrina herself? Where did you see her?"
(Boy—putting on his cunning look again) "Where? why here, to be sure."
(Morley—more excited) "Here! what, in this house?"
(Boy) "To be sure; why not? She called to me through the keyhole upstairs, and shoved the letter out under the door, and told me to take it as before. I couldn't ask her anything, for I heard Mrs. Cooper coming upstairs."
(Morley—rising up in bed in the greatest excitement) "Oh! take me to her!—or, stay, take a message to her at once; tell her I am——"
(Boy) "Stop, stop, sir; you must lend me a horse to do that."
(Morley) "I thought you said she was here, in this house."