"Confound it, he will turn you away.

He will say, 'This girl knows too much.'" "How simple you be!" said the girl.

"D'ye think I let him know?
Says he, 'I think I have seen you before.' 'Yes, sir,' says I, 'I was housemaid here before my lady had me to dress her.' 'No,' says he, 'I mean in London--in Mayfair, you know.' I declare you might ha' knocked me down wi' a feather.

So I looks in his face, as cool as marble, and I said, 'No, sir; I never had the luck to see London, sir,' says I.'All the better for you,' says he; and he swallowed it like spring water, as sister Rhoda used to say when she told one and they believed it." "You are a clever girl," said Bassett.

"He would have turned you out of the house if he had known who you were." She disappointed him in one thing; she was bad at answering questions.
Morally she was not quite so great an egotist as himself, but intellectually a greater.