"Don't I know that he has followed your steps everywhere like a shadder; that he has been ready to kiss the very ground you trod on?
And right mad I have been with him for it.

You can't deny that he has been after you, wanting you to be his wife." "I do not wish to deny it," she replied.

"You and the whole world are quite welcome to know all that has passed between me and Luke.

He asked to be allowed to come here to see me--to 'court' me, he phrased it--which I distinctly declined.

Then he took to following me about.