"Not make myself a bother! Oh, but I will; I will. I'm to be carrying on with you, and nothing to come of it; but for you to tell me that you don't mean to marry, never at all! Never?"
"Don't you see lots of old bachelors about, Ruby?"
"Of course I does. There's the Squire. But he don't come asking girls to keep him company."
"That's more than you know, Ruby."

"Not make myself a bother! Oh, but I will. I'm to be carrying on with you, and nothing to come of it; but for you to tell me that you don't mean to marry! Never?"
"Don't you see lots of old bachelors about, Ruby?"
"Of course I does. There's the Squire. If he came asking a girl to keep him company,