alone.

Amy did this with such a stock of assurance that the girl was
confounded, and knew not what to say; but the more she hesitated, the
more Amy pressed her to go; and talking very kindly to her, told her if
she did not go to see her lodgings she might go to keep her company, and
she would pay a boat to bring her back again; so, in a word, Amy
prevailed on her to go into the boat with her, and carried her down to
Greenwich.

'Tis certain that Amy had no more business at Greenwich than I had, nor
was she going thither; but we were all hampered to the last degree with
the impertinence of this creature; and, in particular, I was horribly
perplexed with it.

As they were in the boat, Amy began to reproach her with ingratitude in
treating her so rudely who had done so much for her, and been so kind to
her; and to ask her what she had got by it, or what she expected to get.
Then came in my share, the Lady Roxana. Amy jested with that, and
bantered her a little, and asked her if she had found her yet.

But Amy was both surprised and enraged when the girl told her roundly
that she thanked her for what she had done for her, but that she would
not have her think she was so ignorant as not to know that what she
(Amy) had done was by her mother's order, and who she was beholden to
for it. That she could never make instruments pass for principals, and
pay the debt to the agent when the obligation was all to the original.
That she knew well enough who she was, and who she was employed by. That
she knew the Lady ---- very well (naming the name that I now went by),
which was my husband's true name, and by which she might know whether
she had found out her mother or no.

Amy wished her at the bottom of the Thames; and had there been no
watermen in the boat, and nobody in sight, she swore to me she would
have thrown her into the river. I was horribly disturbed when she told
me this story, and began to think this would, at last, all end in my
ruin; but when Amy spoke of throwing her into the river and drowning
her, I was so provoked at her that all my rage turned against Amy, and I
fell thoroughly out with her. I had now kept Amy almost thirty years,
and found her on all occasions the faithfullest creature to me that ever
woman had--I say, faithful to me; for, however wicked she was, still she
was true to me; and even this rage of hers was all upon my account, and
for fear any mischief should befall me.

But be that how it woul