Not the least, little tiny speck of it.

I talked and laughed, but as he went away

I said, “You’ll get a letter, Alfred Gray.”

And that was all I said, except, of course, “Good-bye,”

But after he was gone—I don’t know why—

I angry grew and wrote that letter then.

I told him what I thought of all the men,

And ’bout him calling on my Cousin Kate;

Said I, “It isn’t jealousy, but hate,

That prompts me now to write to you this way,