"To be sure. I knew he'd do it all along. It's no good expecting marcy at the hands o' them measters. Yo'r a stranger and a foreigner, and aren't likely to know their ways; but I knowed it."
"I am sorry I asked you. Was he angry? He did not speak to you as Hamper did, did he?"

'To be sure. I knew he would. It's no good expecting marcy at the hands o' them measters.'
'I am sorry I asked you. Was he angry?'
