''Oo's this ?' she ses.

'A young friend o' mine,' I ses.

'You're a liar,' she ses, 'I seed from the first minute as you wasn't no respectable gal,' she ses, 'an' now per'aps me sisters'll believe me.

So out I 'ad to go, an' I wasn't sorry.

It seemed like there wasn't nothink in the world mattered but Elbert, like as if damnation was worth while.