When the door was opened, he saw Miss Ward standing behind the maid who admitted him.
"Oh," she said, looking at the string of skates as if she had hardly expected to see them again, "so you have brought our things back ?" "Such were my instructions," he said, taken aback by her manner.

"You had no instructions.

What do you mean by getting our skates into your charge under false pretences?
I was about to send the police to take them from you.

How dare you tell me that you were sent to wait on me, when you know very well that you were nothing of the sort ?" "I couldn't help it, Miss," he replied submissively.

"I am a natural born liar--always was.