As it is, I thank you again.

Good evening!" "Stay, Miss Mary," replied Poll, walking eagerly a step or two after her, "stay a minute; I have run a risk in doin' this--only promise me, to keep what I said to you a saicret for a while--as well as that you ever had any private talk wid me.

Promise this." "I shall certainly not promise any such thing, Poll; so far from that, I will mention every word of your conversation to my father and family, the moment I reach home.

If, as you say, there is danger before or around me, there are none whose protection I should so naturally seek." "But this," said Poll, with an appearance of deep anxiety, "this is a matther of mere indifference to you: it's to me the danger is, if you spake of it--to me, I say--not to you." "But I can have no secrets from my family." "Well, but is it ginerous in you to put me--ay', my very life in danger--when all you have to do is merely to say nothing?
However, since I must speak out--you'll put more than me in danger--them that you love betther, an' that you'd never carry a light heart if anything happened them." Mary started--and a light seemed suddenly to break upon her.
"How," said she, "my engagement to Francis Harman is no secret; our marriage at no distant day being sanctioned by both our families.

Is he involved in danger connected with your hints ?" "Deep and deadly, both to him and me.