Flo Good Heavens, can this be true? No, I will not believe it of my father, and from such lips.
Mur You have full right to think this and to say it, but mark your father and Coyle to-day. You will then see if I speak truth or not.
Flo Forgive my distrust, Mr. Murcott.
Mur I am past taking offence or feeling scorn, I have carried more than can be heaped upon me, but I did not come only to give you warning of your danger.
Flo Can you avert it?
Asa (Coming down between them). Wal, stranger that's just the question I was going to ask.
Flo You here, sir, and listening.
Asa Wal, it wasn't purpose, I went in there to take a snooze, I heard you talking and I thought it wouldn't be polite of me not to listen to what you had to say. I'm a rough sort of a customer, and don't know much about the ways of great folks. But I've got a cool head, a stout arm, and a willing heart, and I think I can help you, just as one cousin ought to help another.
Flo Well, I do think you are honest.
Mur Shall I go on?