We wanted to be detectives, and we thought a gang of coiners infested your house, so we looked through your window last night.

I saw the lettuce, and I heard what you said about the salmon being three-halfpence cheaper, and I know it is very dishonourable to pry into other people's secrets, especially ladies', and I never will again if you will forgive me this once.' Then the lady frowned and then she laughed, and then she said-- 'So it was you tumbling into the flower-pots last night?
We thought it was burglars.

It frightened us horribly.

Why, what a bump on your poor head!' And then she talked to me a bit, and presently she said she and her sister had not wished people to know they were at home, because--And then she stopped short and grew very red, and I said, 'I thought you were all at Scarborough; your servant told Eliza so.

Why didn't you want people to know you were at home ?' The lady got redder still, and then she laughed and said-- 'Never mind the reason why.