Gentlemen always give fair play before a woman.

That's why I come, lest this appointment should ha' proved a pitfall to you.

Now you'll come home, won't you; and forgive me ?" "I'll come to the old Pilot now, mother," said Robert, pressing her hand.
"That's right; and ain't angry with me for following of you ?" "Follow your own game, mother." "I did, Robert; and nice and vexed I am, if I'm correct in what I heard say, as that lady and her folk passed, never heeding an old woman's ears.

They made a bet of you, dear, they did." "I hope the lady won," said Robert, scarce hearing.
"And it was she who won, dear.

She was to get you to meet her, and give up, and be beaten like, as far as I could understand their chatter; gentlefolks laugh so when they talk; and they can afford to laugh, for they has the best of it.