Apparently I seduced the housemaid or kitchenmaid--my father's establishment seems to consist of Nannie who is housekeeper and cook, and a maid who does housework and helps in the kitchen--and this unfortunate girl who fell a prey to my solicitations--or more likely misled me--afterwards gave birth to a child attributed either to my fatherhood or the gardener's.

But the matter has been hushed up by a payment of twenty pounds and the girl is now married and respectable and ought to give no further trouble.

I suppose that was a climax of naughtiness on my part and the main reason why I was sent away.

The two people who matter most have received me without doubt or question, but the one to be wary about is the old nurse, whose very affection makes her inconveniently inquisitive.

_Mem._ get up and lock my door, or else she may come in with hot water or something in the morning and take me by surprise.
"The original David is evidently dead and well out of the way.