If it wasn't for this trouble with Louise--' She stopped to wipe her face.

'I dessay she's told you that Mr.'Iggins, who was a widower when I met him, has a daughter of his first marriage--her poor mother died at the birth, and she's older than Louise.

I don't mind telling _you_, Mrs.Mumford, she's close upon six-and-twenty, and nothing like so good-looking as Louise, neither.

Mr.'Iggins, he's kindness itself; but when it comes to differences between his daughter and _my_ daughter, well, it isn't in nature he shouldn't favour his own.

There's more be'ind, but I dessay you can guess, and I won't trouble you with things that don't concern you.