If I'd been you I'd have got square.

You had the chance; 'twould have served me right for playing the smart Aleck.

I beg your pardon.

You're all RIGHT! And I'm awfully sorry I was such a chump." It was a straightforward, honest apology and confession of fault.
Mary-'Gusta was pleased, but she did not show it.

He had referred to her as a kid and she did not like that.
"If you don't hurry--yes, and run like everything," she said, "you won't have time to get home and change and meet the others at the boat.