“You must shew them to the gentleman,” said Leah, possibly in concert with her father.
Moses said nothing, but went out to get the horses harnessed.
“I will look at them,” I said to Leah, “but I won’t buy, as I should not know what to do with them.”
“You can take your lady-love out for a drive.”
“That would be you; but perhaps you would be afraid!”
“Not at all, if you drove in the country or the suburbs.”
“Very good, Leah, then I will look at them.”
The father came in, and we went downstairs. I liked the carriage and the horses, and I told Leah so.
“Well,” said Moses, “you can have them now for four hundred sequins, but after Easter the price will be five hundred sequins at least.”
Leah got into the carriage, and I sat beside her, and we went for an hour’s drive into the country. I told Moses I would give him an answer by the next day, and he went about his business, while Leah and I went upstairs again.