“It’ll be a nice change for me,” she ses, smiling. “I used to walk out with a prize-fighter once before, and since I gave ’im up I began to think I was never going to ’ave a young man agin. You can’t think ’ow dull it’s been.”
“Must ha’ been,” ses Ginger.
“I s’pose you’ve got a taste for prize-fighters, miss,” ses Peter Russet.
“No,” ses Miss Tucker; “I don’t think that it’s that exactly, but, you see, I couldn’t ’ave anybody else. Not for their own sakes.”
“Why not?” ses Ginger, looking puzzled.
“Why not?” ses Miss Tucker. “Why, because o’ Bill. He’s such a ’orrid jealous disposition. After I gave ’im up I walked out with a young fellow named Smith; fine, big, strapping chap ’e was, too, and I never saw such a change in any man as there was in ’im after Bill ’ad done with ’im. I couldn’t believe it was ’im. I told Bill he ought to be ashamed of ’imself.”
“Wot did ’e say?” asks Ginger.
“Don’t ask me wot ’e said,” ses Miss Tucker, tossing her ’ead. “Not liking to be beat, I ’ad one more try with a young fellow named Charlie Webb.”