There would have been no harm in your screaming.

You might just as well speak the truth about it." "Lor, mum, but it warn't me," answered Sarah Batts with an injured look.
"Whatever could go to put it in your head as it was me ?" "It must have been one or other of you two girls.

There's no other woman in the house; and as you were upstairs, it seems more likely to have been you.

However, there's no use talking any more about it.

Only we both heard the scream, didn't we, Mrs.Tadman ?" "I should think we did, indeed," responded the widow with a vehement shudder.