I won't say, I don't believe your pretext for coming and asking for work; I know nothing about it. It may be true, or it may not. It's a very unlikely story, at any rate. Let me pass. I'll not give you work. There's your answer."
"I hear, sir. I would na ha' troubled you', but that I were bid to come, by one as seemed to think yo'd getten some place in your heart. Hoo were mistook, and I were misled. But I'm not the first man as is misled by a woman."

As for your pretext for coming and asking for work, it may be true, or it may not. It's a very unlikely story, at any rate. Let me pass. I'll not give you work. There's your answer.'
'I hear, sir. I would na ha' troubled yo', but that I were bid to come, by one as seemed to think yo'd getten some soft place in your heart. Hoo were mistook, and I were misled. But I'm not the first man as is misled by a woman.'
