Michael Sunlocks bowed slightly.
"We've lost a good crop by coming," said Jacob, "and made no charge neither, though it's small thanks you get in this world for doing what's fair and honest."
"Well?" said Michael Sunlocks.
"She never was good to them that was good to her," said Jacob, "and we're taking sorrow to see that we're not the only ones that suffer from her ingratitude."
"Not another word on that head," said Michael Sunlocks. "What do you want?"
"Want? Well, it isn't so mortal kind to say want," said Jacob, with the look of one whose self-respect had been wounded.
"A man may be poor, but a poor man has got feelings," said Asher.
"Poor or rich, I say again, 'What do you want?'" said Michael Sunlocks.
"Only to say that we're going to keep this little thing quiet," said Jacob.
"Aw, quiet, quiet," said the others.