"You're not thinkin' o' keepin' the child yourself!"
"Maybe, for two or three days," said Job cautiously, adjusting his work. "There's a many things I'd like to say to her."
"Ye'll be drawn into doin' more. Tell ye, it won't answer. She'll mind goin' then more than now."
"Maybe I'll mind partin' with her too!"
"And you'll let me take her off!"
"Thank'ee—not such a hurry."
"'Tain't as if you was a young man," expostulated Forsyth. "It's only fair you should think o' yourself afore others."
But this remark worked differently from the way in which John intended that it should.
"It wasn't the Master's way, somehow, to think o' Himself afore others," said Job.
"Eh?" said John.