"I must now ask you to excuse me, sir," said he, "as this is the hour when I receive my manager and arrange with him for the varied business of the day.

Good-morning, sir.

I wish you a very pleasant journey." And, barely giving me a chance to thank him for his entertainment, he disappeared into the back part of the house.
The young lady was standing at the front of the hall.

"Won't you please come in," she said, "and see mother?
She wants to talk to you about Walford." I found the little lady in a small room opening from the parlor, and also, to my great surprise, I found her extremely talkative and chatty.

She asked me so many questions that I had little chance to answer them, and she told me a great deal more about Walford and its people and citizens than I had learned during my nine months' residence in the village.