Do you know that she herself has discovered nearly a thousand ash in the Squire's woods, after that old idiot Hull had told her she wouldn't find half-a-dozen?
A thousand ash is not to be sneezed at in these days! I happen to know that the Air Board wrote the Squire a very civil letter.' '"All along of Eliza!"' mused Mannering.

'She's been away from Mannering just lately.

Her invalid mother became very seriously ill about three weeks ago, and she had to go home for a time.

My father, of course, has been fussing and fuming to get her back.' 'Poor Squire! But how could Pamela be spared too ?' Mannering hesitated.
'Well, the fact is she and my father seem to have had a good old-fashioned row.

She tried to fill Miss Bremerton's place, and of course it didn't answer.