Please let me go now.

My aunt will be down directly; and she must not find me here." She curtseyed with distant respect, and left the room.
"So much for trying to put two ideas together into a girl's mind!" thought Mr.Troy, when he was alone again.

"The little fool evidently thinks I am jealous of Moody's place in her estimation.

Well! I have done my duty--and I can do no more." He looked round the room.

Not a chair was out of its place, not a speck of dust was to be seen.