\"Ah, ah—so you kicked over the traces, did you? And I suppose Augusta and Welland pulled long faces, and behaved as if the end of the world had come? But little May—she knew better, I'll be bound?\"
\"I hoped she did; but after all she wouldn't agree to what I'd gone down to ask for.\"
\"Wouldn't she indeed? And what was that?\"
\"I wanted to get her to promise that we should be married in April. What's the use of our wasting another year?\"
\"Ah, ah—so you kicked over the traces, did you? And I suppose Augusta and Welland pulled long faces, and behaved as if the end of the world had come? But little May—she knew better, I'll be bound?\"
\"I hoped she did; but after all she wouldn't agree to what I'd gone down to ask for.\"
\"Wouldn't she indeed? And what was that?\"
\"I wanted to get her to promise that we should be married in April. What's the use of our wasting another year?\"
