I took leave to remind her that it was the duty of a respectable person, like herself, to reform scamps; I also mentioned that I was going away, and she would be master and mistress too on my small property.

That softened her heart towards me.

You will mostly find old women amenable, if you get at them by way of their dignity.

Besides, there was another lucky circumstance that helped me.

The neighbourhood of my cottage has some attraction for Mrs.Lewson.She didn't say particularly what it was--and I never asked her to tell me." "Surely you might have guessed it, without being told," Iris reminded him.