'Do you wish me to elope, Nic ?' she asked.
'No,' he said.
So the compact was made, and they left the church singly, Nicholas remaining till the last, and closing the door.

On his way home, carrying the well-packed bag which was just now to go no further, the two men who were mending water-carriers in the meadows approached the hedge, as if they had been on the alert all the time.
'You said you mid want us for zummat, sir ?' 'All right--never mind,' he answered through the hedge.

'I did not require you after all.'.