He stopped rolling immediately, and rested his chin on the handle of the roller.
"If you neglect your work," said she maliciously, "you won't have the grass ready when the people come." "What people ?" he said, taken aback.
"Oh, lots of people.

Most likely some who know you.

There are visitors coming from London: my guardian, my guardianess, their daughter, my mother, and about a hundred more." "Four in all.

What are they coming for?
To see you ?" "To take me away," she replied, watching for signs of disappointment on his part.
They were at once forthcoming.

"What the deuce are they going to take you away for ?" he said.