"
"If you tell me nothing I can repeat nothing," I answered proudly.
"Yet you know something already. Can you keep silent entirely and under
all circumstances as to what has happened since you opened the street
door?"
"It is not my custom to gabble about your affairs."
"Will you seek to learn no more and to understand no more?"
"I desire to know nothing of the affairs of others, if they do not
choose to tell me of their own free will."
She looked at me and sighed a little, at the which I marvelled somewhat,
for it was ever her custom to trust in God and so to go forward without
question.
"You are young and ill prepared for trial, yet you have wandered
alone--silly lassie that you are--into a wilderness of wolves."
"There is trouble everywhere," I answered.
"And danger too," she said; "but there is trouble that we seek for
ourselves, and trouble that God sends to us. You will do well, when you
are safe at home, to wander no more. Now go to bed and rest."
"Shall I not get a meal for your guest?" I asked; for I was well aware
that the man had not yet left the house.
[Sidenote: "Ask no Questions!"]
"Do my bidding and ask no questions," she said, more sternly than was
her custom. So I took my candle and went away silently, she following me
to my chamber. When I was there she bid me pray to God for all who were
in danger and distress, then I heard that she turned the key upon me on
the outside and went away.
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