"Good God!" continued the same voice, "what can be the meaning of this intrusion ?--Begone, rash man." In the mean time, Tom, who was in a room just under the one into which he had unfortunately made so sudden an entrance, appeared at the door.
"What the devil is the matter now ?" said Tom; when spying his cousin in the centre of the room, without seeming to know whether to return or remain, he could not restrain his laughter.

Tallyho looked up, like one in a dream--then down--then casting his eyes around him, he perceived in the corner, peeping out from the bed-curtains in which she had endeavoured to hide her almost naked person, the head of the old Housekeeper.

The picture was moving, and at the same time laughable.
The confusion of Bob--the fright of the Housekeeper, and the laughter of Tom, were subjects for the pencil of a Hogarth! "So," said Tom, "you are for springing game in all parts of the house, and at all times too.

How came you here ?"--"Not by my appointment, Sir," replied the old lady, who still remained rolled up in the curtain.

"I never did such a thing in all my born days: I'm an honest woman, and mean to remain so.