Said she, (I did not know her drift then; to be sure she meant well; but
I did not thank her for it, when I did know it,) Let your things be
brought down in the green-room, and I will do any thing you will have me
do.

With all my heart, said I, green-room or any where; but I think you might
step up, and see 'em as they lie.

However, I fetched 'em down, and laid them in three parcels, as before;
and, when I had done, I went down to call her up to look at them.

Now, it seems, she had prepared my master for this scene, unknown to me;
and in this green-room was a closet, with a sash-door, and a curtain
before it; for there she puts her sweet-meats and such things; and she
did it, it seems, to turn his heart, as knowing what I intended, I
suppose that he should make me take the things; for, if he had, I should
have made money of them, to help us when we got together; for, to be
sure, I could never have appeared in them.

Well, as I was saying, he had got, unknown to me, into this closet; I
suppose while I went to call Mrs. Jervis: and she since owned to me, it
was at his desire, when she told him something of what I intended, or
else she would not have done it: though I have reason, I am sure, to
remember the last closet-work.

So I said, when she came up, Here, Mrs. Jervis, is the first parcel; I
will spread it all abroad. These are the things my good lady gave me.--
In the first place, said I--and so I went on describing the clothes and
linen my lady had given me, mingling blessings, as I proceeded, for her