There Obadiah followed them;
Maria, too. No accident
Could possibly account for this
Sad interference with their bliss.
At last Phipps, goaded to despair,
Cried: "Pray, sir—what, sir, do you wish?"
But Obadiah turned away,
Merely ejaculating "Pish!"
Then Phipps addressed Maria too,
And all he got from her was "Pooh!"