human
--such was Jenifer's account to Mr. Brewer; who, when she paused at this point, asked:
gpt
What next did you do? Did you go upstairs again to bed?
human
I went upstairs, the woman answered,
gpt
human
You don't usually get up at six, or before the girl gets up, do you?
gpt
No, sir; never, I may say. But I got up to ease my mind of its burthens. And when Peggy had got up, and was down stairs, I started off for the alms-house; I thought Mr. Dawson might be up to say mass there, for it was St. Lawrence's Day.
human
Well?
gpt
But there had been no message about mass, and no priest was expected. And as I got back to our door there was Mrs. Fell, the milk-woman. She had brought the milk herself. I asked how that should be. She said they had had a cow like to die in the night, and that their man had been up all night, and that she was sparing him, for he had gone to lie down. Then I said, 'Why, I could never have heard any of you busy about the cattle in the night'--you see they rent the meadows. But she said they were not in the meadows; the beasts were all in the shed at the farm. 'But,' she said, it's odd if you were disturbed, for a man came to our place just before twelve o'clock, and asked for you.' 'For me!' I cried--'a man at your place in the middle of the night, asking for me!' She said, 'Yes; and a decent-spoken body, too. But tired, and wet through and through. He said he had fallen into the Beremouth deer pond, up in the park. That is, he described the place clear enough, and we knew it was the deer pond, for it could not be anywhere else!'
human
And did you ask where the man went to?
gpt
No, sir. I lifted my eyes, and I saw him.
human
And who was he?
gpt
Oh, Mr. Brewer, it must all be suffered as he gives it to me to suffer; but I am not clear about telling his name.
human
It is nearly ten o'clock, he said.
gpt
Where's your mistress?
human
Settled to her work, sir.