Then the lady frowned and then she laughed, and then she said -'So it was you tumbling into the flower-pots last night? We thought it was burglars. It frightened us horribly. Why, what a bump on your poor head!'
And then she talked to me a bit, and presently she said she and her sister had not wished people to know they were at home, because -And then she stopped short and grew very red, and I said, 'I thought you were all at Scarborough; your servant told Eliza so.
Why didn't you want people to know you were at home?'
The lady got redder still, and then she laughed and said -'Never mind the reason why. I hope your head doesn't hurt much.
Thank you for your nice, manly little speech. You've nothing to be ashamed of, at any rate.' Then she kissed me, and I did not mind.
And then she said, 'Run away now, dear. I'm going to - I'm going to pull up the blinds and open the shutters, and I want to do it at once, before it gets dark, so that every one can see we're at home, and not at Scarborough.'