His visitor looked at him rather oddly.
"Jed," she observed, "you're changed." Changed?
I ain't changed my clothes, if that's what you mean.
Course if I'd know I was goin' to have bankers' daughters with gold--er--muskrats 'round their necks come to see me I'd have dressed up." "Oh, I don't mean your clothes.

I mean you--yourself--you've changed." "I've changed! How, for mercy sakes ?" "Oh, lots of ways.

You pay the ladies compliments now.

You wouldn't have done that a year ago." "Eh?
Pay compliments?
I'm afraid you're mistaken.

Your pa says I'm so absent-minded and forgetful that I don't pay some of my bills till the folks I owe 'em to make proclamations they're goin' to sue me; and other bills I pay two or three times over." "Don't try to escape by dodging the subject.