One yard or a dozen, the principle is just the same.

I asked you what you meant to do with it, and you replied, 'keep it, of course.' Do you deny that ?" "No.

It is very likely that I did say so, for it was my intention to keep it." "Without paying for it ?" asked Mrs.Markle.
Mrs.Comegys looked steadily into the face of her interrogator for some moments, a flush upon her cheek, an indignant light in her eye.
Then, without replying to the question, she stepped to the wall and rang the parlor bell.

In a few moments a servant came in.
"Ask the gentleman in the dining-room if he will be kind enough to step here." In a little while a step was heard along the passage, and then a young man entered.
"You are a clerk in Mr.Perkins' store ?" said Mrs.Comegys.
"Yes, ma'am." "You remember my buying this lawn dress at your store ?" "Very well, ma'am.

I should forget a good many incidents before I forgot that." "What impressed it upon your memory ?" "This circumstance.