He shook hands with Aunt Martha, and then turned to Amy.
"This time, Miss Amy, I have caught you.

Have I not kept your secret well ?" Amy was thinking of another secret than Aunt Martha's living in Front Street, and she merely blushed, without speaking.
"I tried very hard to persuade myself to come up here after I saw you at the window.

But I did not until the secret looked out of the window and revealed itself.

I came to-day to say that I am going out of town in a day or two, and that I should like, before I go, to know that I may do what I can to take Aunt Martha out of this place." Aunt Martha shook her head slowly.

"Why should it be ?" said she.