However, we must hope for the best, Mrs Morgan.

Who is to attend upon him?
He will require careful nursing.
Is that young lady his sister?
She looks too young to be his wife ?" "No, indeed! Gentlemen like you must know, Mr Jones, that we can't always look too closely into the ways of young men who come to our houses.

Not but what I'm sorry for her, for she's an innocent, inoffensive young creature.

I always think it right, for my own morals, to put a little scorn into my manners when such as her come to stay here; but, indeed, she's so gentle, I've found it hard work to show the proper contempt." She would have gone on to her inattentive listener if she had not heard a low tap at the door, which recalled her from her morality, and Mr Jones from his consideration of the necessary prescriptions.
"Come in!" said Mrs Morgan, sharply.

And Ruth came in.