"That had nothing to do with it," said youth shrewdly. "You liked him."
"Well, I did." And she continued happily, "I 'eard 'e was goin' wi' Nina Old and I came 'ome to see."
"And was he?"
"I run right against them up to Four Turnin's and I gived 'im a look."
"I know," laughed Richbell delightedly. "I know how you looked."
"'An 'e lifted 'is 'at to me." She paused meditatively. "'Good evening,' he says and come straight over to me."
"Left her?"
"There and then."
"Iss, mammy?"
"We was married in a month from that day; but come, my dear, 'tis blowin' up for a storm and we better go in now. You got to go down to Wastralls early to-morrow mornin'."