She was herself naturally angry with him.

"What does he mean," she says, "by talking of a hoax?
I wish he was as frightened as I am.

This is the first time I have been out at service, sir--and I did think I had found a respectable place." I said very little to her--feeling, if the truth must be told, rather anxious about the duty committed to me.

On reaching the house the door was opened from within, before I could knock.

A gentleman stepped out, who proved to be the doctor.