Lucy has never run after Mr.Allen or any man.

When she went on those errands to your house I had to fairly make her go.
She said that folks would think she was running after Mr.Allen, even if he wasn't there, and she has never been, to my knowledge, more than three times when he was there, and then I made her.

I told her folks wouldn't be so silly as to think such things of a girl like her." "Folks are silly enough for anything.

Of course, I knew better; you know that, Mrs.Ayres." "I don't know what I know," replied Mrs.Ayres, with that forceful indignation of which a gentle nature is capable when aroused.
Mrs.Whitman looked frightened.

She opened her lips to speak, when a boy came running into the yard.