"Eh!" said he, as she came in, "to think of th' oud gentleman dropping off as he did! Yo' might ha' knocked me down wi' a straw when they telled me. 'Mr. Hale?' said I; 'him as was th' parson?' 'Ay,' said they. 'Then,' said I, 'there's as good a man gone as ever lived on this earth, let who will be t'other!' And I came to see yo', and tell yo' how grieved I were, but them women in th' kitchen wouldn't tell yo' I were there. They said yo' were ill,--and butter me, but yo' dunnot look like the same wench. 
'Eh!' said he, 'to think of th' oud gentleman dropping off as he did! Yo' might ha' knocked me down wi' a straw when they telled me. He were as good a man as ever lived. And I came to tell yo' how grieved I were, but them women in th' kitchen wouldn't tell yo' I were there. They said yo' were ill. And yo're going to be a grand lady up i' Lunnon, aren't yo'?'
