If I thought after I'd left that music was still playing, and I not there, I should be quite melancholy-like." "What's yer hurry then, Laban ?" inquired Coggan.

"You used to bide as late as the latest." "Well, ye see, neighbours, I was lately married to a woman, and she's my vocation now, and so ye see--" The young man halted lamely.
"New Lords new laws, as the saying is, I suppose," remarked Coggan.
"Ay, 'a b'lieve--ha, ha!" said Susan Tall's husband, in a tone intended to imply his habitual reception of jokes without minding them at all.

The young man then wished them good-night and withdrew.
Henery Fray was the first to follow.

Then Gabriel arose and went off with Jan Coggan, who had offered him a lodging.

A few minutes later, when the remaining ones were on their legs and about to depart, Fray came back again in a hurry.