You can stay here as long as you like , and I 'll make them cook your meals for you . '' I never saw Kate so thoroughly cowed . `` Thank you , '' she said faintly . `` You are very kind , but we must go . '' `` Well , then , '' said Mrs. Matilda Pitman , throwing open the door , `` your team is ready for you . I made Robert catch your ponies and harness them . And I made him fix that broken tongue properly . I enjoy making Robert do things . It 's almost the only sport I have left . I 'm eighty and most things have lost their flavour , except bossing Robert . '' Our democrat and ponies were outside the door , but Robert was nowhere to be seen ; in fact , we never saw him again . `` I do wish , '' said Kate , plucking up what little spirit she had left , `` that you would let us -- ah -- uh '' -- Kate quailed before Mrs. Matilda Pitman 's eye -- `` recompense you for our entertainment . '' `` Mrs. Matilda Pitman said before -- and meant it -- that she does n't take pay for entertaining strangers , nor let other people where she lives do it , much as their meanness would like to do it . '' We got away . The sulky Amelia had vanished , and there was nobody to see us off except Mrs. Matilda Pitman . `` Do n't forget to call the next time you come this way , '' she said cheerfully , waving her knitting at us . `` I hope you 'll get safe to Bothwell . If I was ten years younger I vow I 'd pack a grip and go along with you . I like your spunk . Most of the girls nowadays is such timid , skeery critters .
When I was a girl I was n't afraid of nothing or XXXXX . ''
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