You would have asked him in a way that would have secured you the letter with no trouble." Nancy Ellen highly appreciated these words of praise before her lover.
She arose immediately.
"Maybe I could do something with him now," she said.

"I'll go and see." "You shall do nothing of the kind," said Kate.

"I am as much Bates as he is.

I won't be taunted afterward that he turned me out and that I sent you to him to plead for me." "I'll tell him you didn't want me to come, that I came of my own accord," offered Nancy Ellen.
"And he won't believe you," said Kate.
"Would you consent for me to go ?" asked Robert Gray.
"Certainly not! I can look out for myself." "What shall you do ?" asked Nancy Ellen anxiously.
"That is getting slightly ahead of me," said Kate.

"If I had been diplomatic I could have evaded this until morning.