Mr.Parker and I have been good friends ever since I come here to work.

He's asked me to marry him some time or other and I said maybe I would.

That makes us engaged, same's I've been tryin' to tell you.

And what all this row is about I can't see.

It's our business, ain't it?
I can't see as it's anybody else's." But Hannah was by this time beyond holding back.