She was not curious nor anxious, nor perturbed in any way.

She pottered round her plants, pulling up a weed here, and removing a withered bud there, in the most comfortable fashion, and only once she made a remark to herself with regard to the occupants of the drawing-room.

This was her sole allusion to them.
"I hope that young man won't forget to take the box of Eleazer'ss Life-pills to his mother.

I left it handy on the hall table, and I hope he'll remember to slip it into his pocket." Presently Mrs.Meadowsweet re-entered the house.

There she noticed two things.