"This is so utterly unexpected--you obtain admission to my presence by misrepresentation--" "As God's in heaven, ma'am, that's not true.

I made no pretence; and I thought in reason you would know why I had come.

This gossip--" "I have heard nothing of it.

Tell me of it, I say." "Tell you, ma'am--not I.

What the gossip is, no matter.