"Don't you gainsay me, or I'll soon have you by the heels in jail for your lies.

You'll do as I bid you, and very lucky to be let off so cheap.

You was to be my master, but you chose her instead: well, then, you shall be my servant.

You shall come here every Saturday at eight o'clock, and bring me a sovereign, which I never could keep a lump o' money, and I have had one or two from Rhoda; so I'll take it a sovereign a week till I get a husband of my own sort, and then you'll have to come down handsome once for all." Bassett knitted his brows and thought hard.

His natural impulse was to defy her; but it struck him that a great many things might happen in a few months; so at last he said, humbly, "I consent.