I always think of Jupiter and the wagoner, when I hear any one going on this way." Aunt Grace was excited.

She usually was when she thought earnestly.
But her warmth of word and manner rarely disturbed Mrs.Markland, who knew her thoroughly, and valued her for her good qualities and strong attachment to the family.

No answer was made, and Aunt Grace added, in a slightly changed voice,-- "I don't know that you are so much to blame, Agnes, seeing that Fanny saw the letter, and that you were ignorant of its contents.
But Edward might have known that something like this would happen.
Why didn't he put the letter into his pocket, and keep it until he came home?
He seems to have lost his common sense.

And then he must go off into that rigmarole about Mr.Lyon, and try to make him out a saint, as if to encourage you to give his letter to Fanny.

I've no patience with him! Mr.Lyon, indeed! If he doesn't have a heart-scald of him before he's done with him, I'm no prophet.
Important business for Mr.Lyon! Why didn't Mr.Lyon attend to his own business when he was in New York?
Oh! I can see through it all, as clear as daylight.