I might have played with the little boy every day for a month and you would never have known, if I hadn't told you." She banged across the room as she spoke, and out at the door, slamming it behind her rudely.

Then upstairs like a whirlwind; but when she got to her own room, she sat down on the floor and burst into tears, and when Dorcas came up, nearly half an hour later, she was still in the same place, crouched up in a little heap, sobbing bitterly.
"Oh, missie, missie," said Dorcas, "it's just what I was afraid of!" As Griselda rushed out of the room Miss Grizzel leant back in her chair and sighed deeply.
"Already," she said faintly.

"She was never so violent before.

Can one afternoon's companionship with rudeness have already contaminated her?
Already, Tabitha--can it be so ?" "Already," said Miss Tabitha, softly shaking her head, which somehow made her look wonderfully like an old cat, for she felt cold of an evening and usually wore a very fine woolly shawl of a delicate grey shade, and the borders of her cap and the ruffles round her throat and wrists were all of fluffy, downy white--"already," she said.
"Yet," said Miss Grizzel, recovering herself a little, "it is true what the child said.

She might have deceived us.