However, my boy, as you have got possession of edge-tools, you must have some rules how to use them.

Did you never hear that you were not to open letters ?" "Please, my lady, it were open.

Mr.Horner forgot for to seal it, in his hurry to be off." "But you must not read letters that are not intended for you.

You must never try to read any letters that are not directed to you, even if they be open before you." "Please, may lady, I thought it were good for practice, all as one as a book." My lady looked bewildered as to what way she could farther explain to him the laws of honour as regarded letters.
"You would not listen, I am sure," said she, "to anything you were not intended to hear ?" He hesitated for a moment, partly because he did not fully comprehend the question.

My lady repeated it.