You are muddled.

She has a fright about matrimony--a common thing at her age, I am told.

Where's the man ?' 'In the Bench, of course.

Where'd you have him ?' 'I, sir?
If I knew my worst enemy to be there, I'd send him six dozen of the best in my cellar.' Temple shot a walnut at me.

I pretended to be meditating carelessly, and I had the heat and roar of a conflagration round my head.
Presently the captain said, 'Are you sure the man's in the Bench ?' 'Cock,' Squire Gregory replied.
'He had money from his wife.' 'And he had the wheels to make it go.' Here they whispered in earnest.
'Oh, the Billings were as rich as the Belthams,' said the captain, aloud.
'Pretty nigh, William.' 'That's our curse, Greg.