But, indeed, if I were you, I wouldn't take on so about people I didn't know anything about.

And you didn't know anything about _them_.

You haven't even asked the names," urged the worthy woman.
"Na, na, I did na ken onything anent them; but it is unco awfu'!" said Rose, in hurried, tremulous tones.
Not for all her hidden treasures would she have had it suspected that she even remotely knew anything about the murder or the man who was murdered.
"And yet you take on about them.

Ah! your heart is too tender, ma'am.

If you are going to take up everybody else's crosses as well as your own, you'll never get through this world, ma'am.