Or maybe I won't.

Ah, hum! 'twouldn't be the first thing I've had to do that I didn't like." Her friend looked at her.
"Aunt," she said, "I want to make a proposal to you, and you mustn't be cross about it." "A proposal! Sakes alive! What'll I say?
'This is so sudden!' That's what Becky Ryder, up to the west part of the town, said when Jim Baker, the tin peddler, happened to ask her if she'd ever thought of gettin' married.

'O James! this is so sudden!' says Becky.

Jim said afterwards that the suddenest thing about it was the way he cleared out of that house.

And he never called there afterwards." Grace smiled, but quickly grew grave.
"Now, auntie," she said, "please listen.