And mashed potatoes--do you like them best mashed or baked ?" Mary finding herself obliged to vote, voted for mashed potatoes.
"Very well.

But, Miss Thorne, if you like boiled fowl better, with a little bit of ham, you know, I do hope you'll say so.

And there's lamb in the house, quite beautiful; now do 'ee say something; do 'ee, Miss Thorne." So invoked, Mary felt herself obliged to say something, and declared for the roast fowl and sausages; but she found it very difficult to pay much outward respect to a person who would pay so much outward respect to her.

A day or two after her arrival it was decided that she should ride about the place on a donkey; she was accustomed to riding, the doctor having generally taken care that one of his own horses should, when required, consent to carry a lady; but there was no steed at Boxall Hill that she could mount; and when Lady Scatcherd had offered to get a pony for her, she had willingly compromised matters by expressing the delight she would have in making a campaign on a donkey.

Upon this, Lady Scatcherd had herself set off in quest of the desired animal, much to Mary's horror; and did not return till the necessary purchase had been effected.