And I said, 'Nay, your mother told the truth, thank God!' "'You see,' she continued, 'I was at school until a year ago, and our families were not at all intimate.' I said, 'Not at all.

Your father was a proud man, Miss Harlow, and he would not notice a cotton-spinner on terms of social equality.

And Stephen Hatton thought himself as good as the best man near him.

So he was.

And no worse for the mill.