"Not a bit of it."
"Mr. Haye of Asphodel?" said Rufus.
"Asphodel? no, of Mannahatta; — he used to be at Asphodel."
"What does he want, sir?"
"I am going to tell your mother by and by. It's her concern."
"Well tell it," said Mrs. Landholm.
"How would you like to have some company in the house this summer?"
Mrs. Landholm laid the potatoe and her knife and her hands down in the pan and looking up asked, "What sort of company?"
"You know he has no wife this many years?"
"Yes —"