So after some general talk about the weather, the country, the house, and so on, we came to the people of the house, or at any rate the chief person.

And I asked her a few quiet questions about Lord Castlewood's health and habits, and any thing else she might like to tell me.

For many things had seemed to me a little strange and out of the usual course, and on that account worthy to be spoken of without common curiosity.

Mrs.Price told me that there were many things generally divulged and credited, which therefore lay in her power to communicate without any derogation from her office.
Being pleased with these larger words (which I always have trouble in pronouncing), I asked her whether there was any thing else.

And she answered yes, but unhappily of a nature to which it was scarcely desirable to allude in my presence.