I was going 'er way one night--about three weeks ago, it was--and I walked with her as far as her road-Mint Street.

Somehow it got put about that we were walking out.

A week afterwards she saw me in Harris's, the grocer's, and waited outside for me till I come out and walked 'ome with me.

After she came in the other night I found we was keeping company.
To-night-tonight she got a ring out o' me, and now we're engaged." "What on earth did you give her the ring for if you don't want her ?" inquired the captain, eyeing him with genuine concern.
"Ah, it seems easy, sir," said the unfortunate; "but you don't know Selina.

She bought the ring and said I was to pay it off a shilling a week.