"Jerry, did ye say?"
"Just plain Jerry," he answered cheerfully. "And you're Peg."
She nodded again with a quick little smile: "Just plain Peg."
"I don't agree with you," said the young man. "I think you are very charming."
"Ye mustn't say things like that with the thunder and lightnin' outside," answered Peg, frowning.
"I mean it," from the man who called himself "Jerry."
"No, ye don't mane it," said Peg positively. "The man who MANES them things never sez them. My father always told me to be careful of the fellow that sez flattherin' things right to yer face. 'He's no good, Peg,' my father sez; 'He's no good.'"
Jerry laughed heartily.
"Your father is right, only his doctrine hardly applies in this instance. I didn't mean it as flattery. Just a plain statement of fact."
After a pause he went on: "Who are you?"