'What for did you tell me lies?'
'Because you were so pretty and I wanted you.'
The flattery fell on deaf ears.
'Them chillun's terrible ugly,' said Hazel wearily.
Reddin came over to her.
'But yours'll be pretty!' he said.
'Dunna come nigh me!' cried Hazel fiercely. 'She says I'm going to have a little 'un! It was a sneak's trick, that; and you're a cruel beast, Jack Reddin, to burn my bees and kill the rabbits and make me have a little 'un unbeknown.'
'But it's what all women expect!'
'You'd ought to have told me. She says it's mortal pain to have a baby, and I'm feared—I'm feared!'
'Hazel,' he said humbly, 'I may as well tell you now that I mean to marry you. The parson must divorce you. Then we'll be married. And I'll turn over a new leaf.'