But you see the cistern is nearly full.' 'Forgive me, my lord, if I am troubling you,' said Dorothy, about to ask another question.
'I delight in the questions of the docile,' said his lordship.

'They are the little children of wisdom.

There! that might be out of the book of Ecclesiasticus,' he added, with a merry laugh.

'I might pass that off on Dr.Bayly for my father's: he hath already begun to gather my father's sayings into a book, as I have discovered.

But, prithee, cousin, let not my father know of it.' 'Fear not me, my lord,' returned Dorothy.