"Rose's address concerns me a good deal more than my own, I can tell you. So you'd better give it me."
"Look 'ere, sir. Are you actin' honest by that girl, or are you not?"
"What the devil do you mean by asking me that?"
His violence made her immense bulk tremble; but her soul stood firm.
"I dessay you mean no 'arm, sir. But we can't 'ave you playin' with 'er. That's all."
"Playing with her? Playing?"
"Yes, playin'. Wot else is it? You know, sir, you ain't thinkin' of marryin' 'er."
"That's just what I am thinking of."
"You 'aven't told 'er that."
"I have told her. And, by Heaven! I'll do it."