She doesn't fancy thee, and fancy is three parts o' love, if reason is t' other fourth.' But somehow Philip could not begin on the subject with Hester.

He did not know why, except that, as he said, 'it was so awkward.' But he really liked Coulson so much as to be anxious to do what the latter wished, although he was almost convinced that it would be of no use.

So he watched his opportunity, and found Alice alone and at leisure one Sunday evening.
She was sitting by the window, reading her Bible, when he went in.
She gave him a curt welcome, hearty enough for her, for she was always chary in her expressions of pleasure or satisfaction.

But she took off her horn spectacles and placed them in the book to keep her place; and then turning more fully round on her chair, so as to face him, she said,-- 'Well, lad! and how does it go on?
Though it's not a day for t' ask about worldly things.

But I niver see thee now but on Sabbath day, and rarely then.