"It can't be, for he's at Cambridge, and it's not post-day.

What do you mean ?" "He came this morning, mother, when I was down at the well; and we fixed that I was to speak to you; and he asked if he might come again for tea." "Dear! dear! and the milk all gone sour?
We should have had milk of our own, if Edward had not persuaded me against buying another cow." "I don't think Mr.Buxton will mind it much," said Maggie, dimpling up, as she remembered, half unconsciously, how little he had seemed to care for anything but herself.
"Why, what a thing it is for you!" said Mrs.Browne, quite roused up from her languor and her head-ache.

"Everybody said he was engaged to Miss Erminia.

Are you quite sure you made no mistake, child?
What did he say?
Young men are so fond of making fine speeches; and young women are so silly in fancying they mean something.

I once knew a girl who thought that a gentleman who sent her mother a present of a sucking-pig, did it as a delicate way of making her an offer.