But she was curious to know more about Philip Traum, and hoped I would bring him again.

Ursula was curious about him herself, and asked a good many questions about his uncle.

It made the boys laugh, for I had told them the nonsense Satan had been stuffing her with.

She got no satisfaction out of us, our tongues being tied.
Ursula gave us a small item of information: money being plenty now, she had taken on a servant to help about the house and run errands.

She tried to tell it in a commonplace, matter-of-course way, but she was so set up by it and so vain of it that her pride in it leaked out pretty plainly.