Did I?
Speak up, now, and say, did I ?" Considine hesitated for a moment in visible distress.

Then, pulling himself together, and looking boldly from one to the other, he replied-- "Now that you mention it, ma'am, I don't think as ever you did.

I must ha' made some mistake." He walked rapidly away, leaving Gordon and Peggy face to face.
"There y'are," she said, "what did I tell ye?
Husban'?
He's no husban' o' mine.

Ye're makin' a mistake, Charlie." Charlie looked after the retreating bushman, and back at the good lady who was beaming at him.
"Don't call me Charlie," he said.

"That old man has come in for a whole lot of money in England.