“You are sure he didn’t give it to you to keep?”
“I am very glad he didn’t.”
“Why are you glad?”
“Because you would have teased me till you got it.”
“And I’ll have it yet, Mrs. Trafton—do you hear that?” said the fisherman fiercely.
“Yes, I hear you.”
“You may as well make up your mind that I am in earnest. What! am I to be defied by a weak woman and a half-grown boy? You don’t know me, Mrs. T.”
“I do know you only too well, Mr. Trafton. It was an unlucky day when I married you.”
“Humph! There may be two sides to that story. Well, I’m going.”
“Where are you going? Shall you go out in the boat this morning?”