When he spoke of Yarm and his visit to Daniel McGair she turned and looked full at him, drinking in every word with hungry curiosity.
'Yes, sir, we left the place, an' I haven't heard o' him this nine year, but I knowed he wasn't dead.' 'How did you know that, Jen ?' 'Because, sir, when God A'mighty sees fit that he should die, I'll be free o' him, that's all.' 'And aren't you going to marry ?' 'Noae, sir.

Johnnie an' me has talked it over, an' he says as how he'll wait till such time as I'm free.

An' I didn't say "no" to him, fur when one knows what it is to love true, sir, one knows well it's noae use to say as this thing's best or t'other, but just it's like being taken up like a leaf by the wind an' moved whether one will or no.

There's just this diff'rence betwixt true love an' the common kind--the common kind o' love moves ye i' the wrong way, an' true love i' the right; fur it's a true word the blessed St.John said when he said that love is God.' 'Did St.John say that ?' said Skelton.
'Yes, sir, I read it to mother just afore she died.

An' Johnnie's gone across the sea, sir, wi' his mother; he got a right good chance to better hisself, an' I made him go.