You have my word.

But let us talk of something else," answered Frances.
"No, no, let us talk about you," insisted Nelly, whose curiosity was equalled only by her good nature.
"Not another word," returned Frances.

"Don't you want to go to the barge for a ride on the river ?" And Nelly eagerly assented.
When they were seated in the barge, Nelly's waterman asked her where he should take them, and she proposed going to the Bridge, leaving the barge at the Bridge stairs, and walking up Gracious Street to the Old Swan Tavern for dinner.

Frances liked the plan and accepted Nelly's invitation to dinner--and to trouble..