And she looked absolutely frightened.

"You mean to tell me that that creature has been coming here to see you, and I not know it ?" I told her then--again quietly and with dignity, and without temper (showing)--that he had been coming, not to see me, but in the natural pursuance of his profession of delivering groceries.

And I said that he was not a creature.

On the contrary, he was, I was sure, an estimable young man.

He went to her own church and Sunday-School.
Besides, I could vouch for him myself, as I knew him well, having seen and talked with him almost every day for a long while, when he came to the house.
But nothing I could say seemed to have the least effect upon her at all, only to make her angrier and angrier, if anything.