"The lamb isn't really the business I came about, Mrs.Hurst.

In short, I was going to ask her if she'd like to be married." "And were you indeed ?" "Yes.

Because if she would, I should be very glad to marry her.
D'ye know if she's got any other young man hanging about her at all ?" "Let me think," said Mrs.Hurst, poking the fire superfluously....
"Yes--bless you, ever so many young men.

You see, Farmer Oak, she's so good-looking, and an excellent scholar besides--she was going to be a governess once, you know, only she was too wild.

Not that her young men ever come here--but, Lord, in the nature of women, she must have a dozen!" "That's unfortunate," said Farmer Oak, contemplating a crack in the stone floor with sorrow.