You are pretty sure to meet him to-night; and you will judge for yourself, ma'am--with an innocent young creature like Miss Lucilla--what it may be best to do ?" This extraordinary answer set _my_ curiosity in a flame.
"My good creature!" I said, "you forget that I am a stranger! I know nothing about it.

Has this mysterious man got a name?
Who is 'He' ?" As I said that, there was another knock at the door.

Zillah whispered, eagerly, "Don't tell upon me, ma'am! You will see for yourself.

I only speak for my young lady's good." She hobbled away, and opened the door--and there was Lucilla, with her smart garden hat on, waiting for me.
We went out by our own door into the garden, and passing through a gate in the wall, entered the village.
After the caution which the nurse had given me, it was impossible to ask any questions, except at the risk of making mischief in our little household, on the first day of my joining it.

I kept my eyes wide open, and waited for events.