She began at once, with a blush for her bad ideas, to beg Dan's pardon, and he saw his way to say what he was come to say.
"You always were too good, Miss Faith, too good to be hard upon any one, and I am sure you have not been hard upon me; for I know that I look disrespectable.

But I couldn't find words to say what I wanted, until you spoke so soft and kind.

And perhaps, when I say it, you'll be angry with me, and think that I trespass upon you." "No, I won't, Dan; I will promise you that.

You may tell me, as if I were Mr.Swipes, who says that he never lost his temper in his life, because he is always right, and other people wrong." "Well, miss, I'm afraid that I am not like that, and that makes me feel so uncomfortable with the difference between us.

Because it is all about Miss Dolly, and I might seem so impudent.