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Thanks for input, all of you.
@BetterRed, the "it" was a book the boy wanted to borrow, and Mrs. Beale offered to "fetch it along" to him when she finished her errand.
@Tuskin, thanks for the "all-wool" input. I am inclined to think that in the context of the paragraph, the person in question was a believer in products of unadulterated ingredients (no cotton masquerading as wool, etc), made in the best quality. I ran across this term in two or three of Nesbit's books, so it was apparently fairly common in that area of England at the time.
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