Shall I begin amusing you before we are on the railway?
Shall I tell you how I came by my queer name ?" Thus far, Alban had controlled himself.

This last specimen of the housekeeper's audacious familiarity reached the limits of his endurance.
"We don't care to know how you came by your name," he said.
"Rude," Mrs.Rook remarked, composedly.

"But nothing surprises me, coming from a man." She turned to Emily.

"My father and mother were a wicked married couple," she continued, "before I was born.

They 'got religion,' as the saying is, at a Methodist meeting in a field.