Say, at the ferry when are we to meet?

Thither, I guess, you travel on your feet.’

She would be there on Tuesday next at three;

‘O dear, how glad and thankful she would be;

But don’t,’ she said, ‘be troubled much for me.’

Punctual they met, a second class he took,

More naturally to her wants to look,

And from her side was seldom far away.

So quiet, so indifferent yet, were they,

As fellow-servants travelling south they seemed,