Totty added, with more show of feeling: 'Thyrza Trent's a little fool.

You may tell her I said so, if you like.
If you know all about it, what do you come bothering me for at this time o' night?
I'm not going to be mixed up in such things, so I tell you! And there's an end of it!' She left him.

He stood and saw her re-enter the house.
Then is was true.

'If you know all about it,' ...

'I'm not going to be mixed up in such things.' ...