Mrs. Gardner. I’m sure I don’t know, but if you go up there courting this afternoon, may happen that you’ll find out.
William. This afternoon? O, that’s much too sudden like.
Mrs. Gardner. Not a bit of it. Recollect, your fancy has been set on her since Sunday.
William. Come, Mother, you can’t expect a man to jump into the river all of a sudden like this.
Mrs. Gardner. I expect you to go up there this very day and to commence telling her of your feelings.
William. But I’ve got no feelings that I can tell her of, Mother.
Mrs. Gardner. Then you’ll please to find some, William.
William. ’Tis a thing that in all my life I’ve never done as to go visiting of a strange wench of an afternoon.
Mrs. Gardner. Then ’tis time you did begin.
William. And what’s more, I’ll not do it, neither.