'Is he your landlord?'
'No, he is not.'
'Then why need you doubt about taking me?'
'Because Rebow wouldn't allow of it.'
'He could not stop me. I am not engaged to him for any time.'
'I dursn't do it. How long have you been with Rebow?'
'A little more than a month.'
'You've never gone against him perhaps. If you had, you wouldn't ask me the reason why I dursn't stand in his way.'
Mehalah considered. She had opposed Elijah from the very beginning.
'There's no one would dare to do it,' continued the landlady. 'If you want to get from Master Rebow, you must go farther inland; but I doubt if you'll escape him. However,' and she tossed her head, 'you only want to make him fast. If a girl gives way at once, she's cheap.'