And in the kitchen-garden at Castlewood no rampion would she allow while she lived.

I asked her whether she had no pity, no sympathy, no fine feeling, and how she could have become Mrs.Price if she never had known such sentiments.

But she said that they only called her "Mistress" on account of her authority, and she never had been drawn to the opposite sex, though many times asked in marriage.

And what she had seen of matrimony led her far away from it.

I was sorry to hear her say this, and felt damped, till I thought that the world was not all alike.
Then she told me, just as if it were no more than a bargain for a pound of tallow candles, how Mr.Herbert Castlewood, patient and persistent, was kept off and on for at least two years by the mother of his sweet idol.