Whatever I may say, be sure you have my pity in your difficult position.

But there is just the one thing that I wish you would bear in view, if it was only long enough to discuss it quietly; for there is going to be a collieshangie when we two get home.

Take my word for it, it will need the two of us to make this matter end in peace." "Ay," said she.

There sprang a patch of red in either of her cheeks.
"Was he for fighting you ?" said she.
"Well, he was that," said I.
She gave a dreadful kind of laugh.

"At all events, it is complete!" she cried.