He carried the key in his pocket.

Fanny never opened the box, or had any curiosity about it, believing that she was acquainted with its contents; but now when, on coming unexpectedly into the bedroom--the box was always kept at the head of the bed--she heard a rattle of papers, and caught Andrew locking the box with a confused air, she began to suspect something.

She began to look hard at the box, to take it up and shake it when her husband was away.

Fanny was crocheting hoods as well as Eva.

Ellen wished to learn, but her mother would not allow that.