He's shown me the place many a time! Then he told his father, and next morning he told me, as he couldn't stand it no longer, an' he never went back no more." "And he told no one else ?--he never complained ?" asked Marcella, indignantly.
"What ud ha been the good o' that, miss ?" Mrs.Hurd said, wondering.
"Nobody ud ha taken his word agen old Westall's.

But he come and told me.

I was housemaid at Lady Leven's then, an' he and his father were old friends of ourn.

And I knew George Westall too.

He used to walk out with me of a Sunday, just as civil as could be, and give my mother rabbits now and again, and do anything I'd ask him.