"I hope none's out in it but what likes to be." They went in.

Madge looked up from arranging the table for supper, and stared at Hawker keenly.

He laughed aloud, and said,-- "So you didn't expect me to-night, deary, eh ?" "You've chose a bad night to come home in, old man," she answered.
"A terrible night, ain't it?
Wouldn't she have been anxious if she'd a' known I'd been out ?" "Don't know as I should," she said.

"That gentleman had better get dried, and have his supper." "I've got a bit of business first, deary.

Where's the girl ?" "In the other kitchen." "Call her .-- Lord! listen to that." A crash of thunder shook the house, heard loud above the rain, which beat furiously against the windows.