I also told her that if she held her tongue I would give her a present.

For this purpose I made Ferruci buy me a cloak lined with rabbit skins, as Rhoda on her night excursions wanted something to keep her warm.

When Ferruci gave it to me, and it was lying in my room, Mrs.
Clear came one night to see me, and finding it cold, she borrowed the cloak to wrap round her.

She kept it for some time, and brought it back on Christmas Eve, when I gave it next day to Rhoda.

It was Ferruci who bought the cloak, not I; and it was purchased for Rhoda, not for Mrs.
Clear.
"The next night I entered No.