Jovian's brother, though he had a strange spleen at her and her son,
and always grew worse when they did but go near the house; but that
some measures must be taken when her son came of age or was married."

"But he came at last!"

"He said he wanted to see for himself, and thought he could at least
find out from the servants whether his uncle was in the state they
reported. And there he found his three little sisters, and that you
was their tutoress, and they couldn't say enough about you, nor the
poor gentleman neither. 'I didn't see her, nurse,' says he, 'but
there's a bit of her own sweet fingers' work.' And sure enough, I
knew it, for it was a knot of the very ribbon you had in your hair
the day I came to talk to your sister about the journey."

"That was what Amy told me she gave him."

"Nothing loth would he be to take it, miss! Though says he, 'Don't
you let my mother know I have tracked her, nurse,' says he. 'It is
plain enough why she gives out that I am not to go near my uncle,
and if she guessed where I had been, she would have some of her
fancies.' 'Now your Honour, my dear,' says I, 'you'll excuse your
old nurse, but her sister put her in my charge, and though I bless
Heaven that you are no young rake, yet you will be bringing trouble
untold on her and hers if you go down there a courting of her
unbeknownst.' 'No danger of that, nurse,' says he; 'why there's
a she-dragon down there (meaning Mrs. Aylward) that was ready to
drive me out of my own house when I did but speak of waiting to
see her.'"