'We can't know all His reasons; He walks in darkness.'
'Well, that's no manner of use to me and Foxy,' said Hazel practically. 'So all as I can see to do is to get married and take Foxy where there's no chicks.'
'So you think of marrying?'
'Ah! And I told father I'd marry the first as come. I swore it by the
Mountain.'
'And who came?' Edward had a kind of faintness in his heart.
'Never a one.'
'Nobody at all?'
'Never a one.'
'And if anyone came and asked for you, you'd take him?'
'Well, I'm bound to, seemingly. But it dunna matter. None'll ever come.
What for should they?'