But he must not know that.

No; _his_ friends are _my_ friends, and shall be too," thought the country wife.

She then glanced with some misgiving at her traveling attire, and wished she had brought _one_ trunk with her.
"James," said she, "where is my room?
And, mind, I forbid you to tell a soul I am come." "Your room, Miss Mabel ?" "Well, any room where there is looking-glass and water." She then went to a door which opened in fact on a short passage leading to a room occupied by Mr.Vane himself.
"No, no!" cried James.

"That is master's room." "Well, is not master's room mistress's room, old man?
But stay; is he there ?" "No, ma'am; he is in the garden, with a power of fine folks." "They shall not see me till I have made myself a little more decent," said the young beauty, who knew at bottom how little comparatively the color of her dress could affect her appearance, and she opened Mr.
Vane's door and glided in.
Burdock's first determination was, in spite of her injunction, to tell Colander; but on reflection he argued: "And then what will they do?
They will put their heads together, and deceive us some other way.

No!" thought James, with a touch of spite, "we shall see how they will all look." He argued also, that, at sight of his beautiful wife, his master must come to his senses, and the Colander faction be defeated; and perhaps, by the mercy of Providence, Colander himself turned off.
While thus ruminating, a thundering knock at the door almost knocked him off his legs.