If you want to walk you can walk about in the grounds.

There's lots of shady paths.' "'Can't go out!' says I.'Can't go out! What do you mean by that ?' "'I mean jus' what I say,' said she, an' she locked the gate.
"I was so mad that I could have pushed her over an' broke the gate, but I thought that if there was anything of that kind to do I had a husband whose business it was to attend to it, an' so I runs aroun' to him to tell him.

He had gone in, but I met Mrs.Jackson an' her brother.
"'What's the matter ?' said she, seein' what a hurry I was in.
"'That woman at the gate,' I said, almost chokin' as I spoke, 'wont let me out.' "'She wont ?' said Mrs.Jackson.

'Well, that's a way she has.

Four times the Bank of the United States has closed its doors before I was able to get there, on account of that woman's obstinacy about the gate.