"Anything else?"
"Yes, yer can 'ave a steak, or a chop, or—"
"Oh yes, I know; well then, I'll have a chop. And now tell me, Emma, how is your young man? I hear you have got one, you went out with him the other night."
"Who told yer that?"
"Ah, never mind; I hear everything."
"I know, from Miss L——."
"Well, tell me, how did you meet him, who introduced him?"
"I met 'im as I was a-coming from the public 'ouse with the beer for missus' dinner."
"And what did he say?"
"He asked me if I was engaged; I said no. And he come round down the lane that evening."