These matters were beyond my learning.
"Lift her and carry her in," Nell commanded, and, stooping, I lifted her in my arms.

The maid and the man stared.

Nell shut the door sharply on them.
"What have you done to her ?" she cried to me in angry accusation.
"You've let her go without food." "We had none.

She flung my last money into the sea," I pleaded.
"And why?
Oh, hold your peace and let us be!" To question and refuse an answer is woman's way; should it be forbidden to Nell, who was woman from crown to sole?
I shrugged my shoulders and drew off to the far end of the room.

For some moments I heard nothing and remained very uneasy, not knowing whether it were allowed me to look or not, nor what passed.