He let you drag through the mud and snow without so much as a patten to keep you off the ground.

Why?
Tell me that, Jenny! Why didn't he wish ?" Jenny was silent.
"You see, if he is not envious, he is at all events a coward," argued Wogan, "else he would have run his own risks and come in your stead." "But that would not have served," cried Jenny.

It was her turn now to speak triumphantly.

"How could O'Toole have run away with his heiress and at the same time remained behind in her bed to escape suspicion, as I am to do ?" "I had forgotten that, to be sure," said Wogan, meekly.
Jenny laughed derisively.
"O'Toole is the man with the head on his shoulders," said she.
"And a pitiful, calculating head it is," exclaimed Wogan.

"Think of the inconvenience of your position when you are discovered to-morrow.