“If you please, ma’am, Hexam said they were going to see his sister.”

“But that can’t be, I think,” returned Miss Peecher: “because Mr. Headstone can have no business with her .”

Mary Anne again hailed.

“Well, Mary Anne?”

“If you please, ma’am, perhaps it’s Hexam’s business?”

“That may be,” said Miss Peecher. “I didn’t think of that. Not that it matters at all.”

Mary Anne again hailed.

“Well, Mary Anne?”

“They say she’s very handsome.”