"That is--you know I WAS.

But don't you see, it couldn't be.

It wouldn't do, you know.

If those clannish neighbors of hers--that Southern set--suspected that Miss Sally was courted by an Englishman, don't you know--a poacher on their preserves--it would be all up with her position on the property and her influence over them.

I don't mind telling you that's one reason why I left the company and took that other plantation.