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 shop-man, that Miss Ellis and Sir Jaspar were talking together upon the stairs, and she had stolen up the back way, and crept softly through one of the garrets, on purpose to come upon them unawares. "So now," added she, nodding, "we'll go into my room, if you please, Miss Ellis; for I have got something else to tell you! only you must not stay with me long."

"And not to tell me, too?" cried Sir Jaspar, chucking her under the chin: "How's this, my daffodil? my pink? my lilly? how's this? surely you have not any secrets for me?"

"O yes, I have, Sir Jaspar! because you're a gentleman, you know, Sir Jaspar. And one must not tell every thing to gentlemen, mamma says."

"Mamma says? but you are too much a woman to mind what mamma says, I hope, my rose, my daisy?" cried Sir Jaspar, chucking her again under the chin, while she smiled and courtsied in return.

Juliet would have re-entered her