Isn't that it, truly ?" "Um-m.

Well, I shouldn't wonder.

You can tell her that, if you want to; I'd just as soon." The young lady still hesitated.

"No-o," she said, "because she'd think perhaps you didn't really want me, but was too polite to say so.

If you asked her yourself, though, I think she'd let me come." At first Jed's bashfulness was up in arms at the very idea, but at length he considered to ask Mrs.Armstrong for the permission.