"You know who I mean."
"I shall know if you tell me. How can I know if you don't tell me?"
"Has Miss Arnott sent you?"
"Miss Arnott? Why should Miss Arnott send me?"
"She knows if you don't."
"Do you think Miss Arnott cares if you were strung up to the top of the tallest tree to-morrow?"
"She mightn't care if I was strung up, but I ain't going to be strung up; and that she does know."
The lawyer looked keenly at the countryman. All at once he changed his tone, he became urbanity itself.
"Now, Baker, let's understand each other, you and I. I flatter myself that I've saved more than one poor chap from a hempen collar, and I'd like to save you. You never put that knife into that man."
"Of course I didn't; ain't I kept on saying so?"