"You know I hadn't seen Aunt Keswick, then.

I couldn't go about introducing myself to other people before I had seen her." Aunt Patsy gave a sagacious nod of her head.

"I reckon you thought she'd be right much disgruntled when she heered you was mar'ed, an' you wanted to tell her youse'f.

But I's pow'ful glad dat it's all right now.

You all don' know how pow'ful glad I is." And she looked at Mr Croft and Miss Annie with a glance as benignant as her time-set countenance was capable of.
"But Aunt Patsy," said Annie, quite willing to change the conversation, although she did not know the import of the old woman's last remark, "I thought you were not able to go out." The old woman gave a little chuckle.