If you had dropped a hint when that Boston reporter came--" "Now, look here, Ros, would YOU have dropped hints if things had been the other way around ?" "I don't know." "I know you wouldn't.

What's the use of giving the Denboro gossip mill a chance to run over time?
Great heavens! it works twelve hours a day as 'tis." "It was mighty good of you, just the same." "No, it wasn't.

The whole affair was your business and nobody else's." "Well, as I said before, if ever I have an opportunity to do as much for you--not that I ever will." "How do you know you won't?
Anybody's liable to be gossiped about some time or other." "Not you.

You are Denboro's shining light.

The mothers and fathers here point you out as an example of what industry and ambition and honest effort may rise to.