If Mrs.Wragge comes in, tell her nothing--she is not sharp enough to be trusted.

If she presumes to ask questions, extinguish her immediately.

You have only to be loud.

Pray take my authority into your own hands, and be as loud with Mrs.Wragge as I am!" He snatched up his tall hat, bowed, smiled, and tripped out of the room.
Sensible of little else but of the relief of being alone; feeling no more distinct impression than the vague sense of some serious change having taken place in herself and her position, Magdalen let the events of the morning come and go like shadows on her mind, and waited wearily for what the day might bring forth.

After the lapse of some time, the door opened softly.