Allmers.

Did not love you, Rita? How can you say such a thing!

Rita.

[Half laughing, lets him go.] Why should I not spread my nets for that—that road-maker man that hangs about here?

Allmers.

[Relieved.] Oh, thank goodness—you are only joking.

Rita.

Not at all. He would do as well as any one else.

Allmers.

Ah, but I suspect he is more or less taken up already.