You haven't such a thing as a match about you, have you?
No matter; I've got one myself." He strolled away.

Rose looked suspiciously at the still confused face of the sewing-girl.
"How do you come to know Doctor Danton ?" she asked abruptly.
"I--he--I mean the window was open and he was passing, and he stopped to speak," stammered Agnes, more confusedly still.
"I dare say," said Rose; "but he would not have stopped unless he had known you before, would he ?" "I--saw him once by accident before--I don't know him--" She stopped and looked piteously at Rose.

She was a childish little thing, very nervous, and evidently afraid of any more questions.
"Well," said Rose, curtly; "if you don't choose to tell, of course you needn't.

He never was a lover of yours, was he ?" "Oh, no! no! no!" "Then I don't see anything to get so confused about.

What are you working at ?" "Miss Eeny's jacket." "Then Miss Eeny's jacket must wait, for I want my new silk made for Thursday evening.