r what was the matter? She replied short, she
did not know where she was, nor where she was going to carry her, and
she would go no farther; and without any more ceremony, turns back, and
walks apace away from her. Amy owned she was surprised, and came back
too, and called to her, upon which the girl stopped, and Amy coming up
to her, asked her what she meant?

The girl boldly replied she did not know but she might murder her; and
that, in short, she would not trust herself with her, and never would
come into her company again alone.

It was very provoking, but, however, Amy kept her temper with much
difficulty, and bore it, knowing that much might depend upon it; so she
mocked her foolish jealousy, and told her she need not be uneasy for
her, she would do her no harm, and would have done her good if she would
have let her; but since she was of such a refractory humour, she should
not trouble herself, for she should never come into her company again;
and that neither she or her brother or sister should ever hear from her
or see her any more; and so she should have the satisfaction of being
the ruin of her brother and sisters as well as of herself.

The girl seemed a little mollified at that, and said that for herself,
she knew the worst of it, she could seek her fortune; but it was hard
her brother and sister should suffer on her score; and said something
that was tender and well enough on that account. But Amy told her it was
for her to take that into consideration; for she would let her see that
it was all her own; that she would have done them all good, but that
having been used thus, she would do no more for any of them; and that
she should not need to be afraid to come into her company again, for she
would never give her occasion for it any more. This, by the way, was
false in the girl too; for she did venture into Amy's company again
after that, once too much, as I shall relate by itself.

They grew cooler, however, afterwards, and Amy carried her into a house
at Greenwich, where she was acquainted, and took an occasion to leave
the girl in a room awhile, to speak to the people in the house, and so
prepare them to own her as a lodger in the house; and then going in to
her again told her there she lodged, if she had a mind to find her out,
or if anybody else had anything to say to her. And so Amy dismissed her,
and got rid of her again; and finding an empty hackney-coach in the
town, came away by land to London,