But if your wife will swear three times on a poker and tongs that she won't reveal, I'll show it to her.

And so you are quite settled at Boxall Hill, are you ?" "Frank's horses are settled; and the dogs nearly so," said Frank's wife; "but I can't boast much of anything else yet." "Well, there's a good time coming.

I must go and change my things now.

But, Mary, mind you get near me this evening; I have such a deal to say to you." And then Miss Dunstable marched out of the room.
All this had been said in so loud a voice that it was, as a matter of course, overheard by Mark Robarts--that part of the conversation of course I mean which had come from Miss Dunstable.

And then Mark learned that this was young Frank Gresham of Boxall Hill, son of old Mr.Gresham of Greshamsbury.