He spoke about what had happened, saying that he felt as if it would shorten his life.

He would give anything, he added, half in self-soliloquy, to have the point cleared up of who it was young Duff had seen in the lane.

Mrs.
Tynn answered this, lowering her voice.
"It was one of our young gentlemen, sir; there's, no doubt of it.

Dolly saw one of them come in." "Dolly did!" echoed Mr.Verner.
Mrs.Tynn proceeded to explain.

Dolly, the dairymaid at Verner's Pride, was ill-conducted enough (as Mrs.Tynn would tell her, for the fact did not give that ruling matron pleasure) to have a sweetheart.