"See here! I'm going alone, understand? I have an engagement with a
Naiad."
"'Ow much a month will you be getting for such h'engagements?"
"Naiads don't pay in money, they give you smiles and kind words."
"Better you continue then as train collector. There is great h'opportunity for stealing."
"My job won't be ready for a few days, and meanwhile I have become a huntsman. I intend to go out every afternoon."
"H'afternoons is no good for wild h'animals; they are sleeping. Walk they in the h'early morning, for the most part, very quietly."
"That's true of some wood creatures, but the kind I hunt dance along the edges of pools in the afternoon. Say, did you ever feel like dancing?"
"No, sar."
"Come around on the back porch and I'll teach you a buck-step. I feel too good to sit still."
But Allan refused this proffer firmly. Such frivolous conduct was beneath his dignity.