"Yet you didn't go with her to the door ?" "She wouldn't let me, and I know when to do what I'm told--quite as much as what I'm not told.

She wanted to find out about me.

I mean from your little creature; a pearl of fidelity, by the way." "But what on earth did she come up for ?" Mamie again found herself appealing, and just by that fact showing her need of help.
"Because she always goes up." Then as, in the presence of this rapid generalisation, to say nothing of that of such a relative altogether, Miss Cutter could only show as comparatively blank: "I mean she knows when to go up and when to come down.

She has instincts; she didn't know whom you might have up here.

It's a kind of compliment to you anyway.
Why Mamie," Scott pursued, "you don't know the curiosity we any of us inspire.