"Yes I do. I wasn't never in service before, and I don't want him to know."
"What harm can it do you?"
"Well, I don't want him to know. It is such a come down, Mrs. Hurtle."
"There is nothing to be ashamed of in that. What you have to be ashamed of is jilting him. It was a bad thing to do;--wasn't it, Ruby?"
"I didn't mean nothing bad, Mrs. Hurtle; only why couldn't he say what he had to say himself, instead of bringing another to say it for him? What would you feel, Mrs. Hurtle, if a man was to come and say it all out of another man's mouth?"

It's such a come-down."
"There is nothing to be ashamed of in that. What you have to be ashamed of is jilting him. It was a bad thing to do; wasn't it, Ruby?"
"I didn't mean nothing bad, Mrs. Hurtle; only why couldn't he say what he had to say himself, instead of bringing another to say it for him? What would you feel, Mrs. Hurtle, if a man was to come and say it all out of another man's mouth?"
