"I believe you do it just to tantalize me.

What wonderful secret did you discover there?
Is that old house the rendezvous of a nest of counterfeiters, or might it be where they manufacture moonshine whiskey, like those mountaineers do down in Georgia ?" "Oh! come, it's nothing like that, Hugh, so don't allow your imagination to carry you away.

I did get something of a shock, though, and I guess you'll feel the same way when you learn about it.

Well, the old gentleman asked me who I was, and if I knew his grandson Owen, as well as a lot of other questions.

Fact is, Hugh, I rather guess he must have taken a violent liking for me right on, the spot, for when I said I must be going two different times, he begged me to stay with him just a little while longer.
"I knew I would be too late for the ball practice anyhow, and besides I didn't have on my old suit, because mother had asked me not to wait to change my clothes.