"She comes over 'ere dropping hints that people are talking about us, and that they ask 'er awkward questions.

Pretending to misunderstand 'er every time is enough to send me crazy; and she's so sudden in what she says there's no being up to 'er.

On'y this morning she asked me if I should be sorry if she died." "What did you say ?" inquired his listener.
"I said 'yes,'" admitted Mr.Wilks, reluctantly.

"I couldn't say anything else; but I said that she wasn't to let my feelings interfere with 'er in any way." Hardy's father sailed a day or two later, and after that nothing happened.

Equator Lodge was an impregnable fortress, and the only member of the garrison he saw in a fortnight was Bella.
His depression did not escape the notice of his partner, who, after first advising love-philtres and then a visit to a well-known specialist for diseases of the heart, finally recommended more work, and put a generous portion of his own on to the young man's desk.