If I bide here another minute I believe you'll get round me." "I don't want to get round you." "Then what makes you say such things?
I question if I'll get an hour's sleep to-night for thinking of you!" "I don't want you to think of me!" He groaned.

"What could an untidy, hardened old single man like me do with you in his house ?" he said.

"Oh, you little limmer, to put such a thought into my head." "I never did!" she exclaimed, indignantly.
"It began, I do believe it began," he sighed, "the first time I saw you easying Ballingall's pillows." "What began ?" "You brat, you wilful brat, don't pretend ignorance.

You set a trap to catch me, and--" "Oh!" cried Grizel, and she opened the door quickly.

"Go away, you horrid man," she said.
He liked her the more for this regal action, and therefore it enraged him.