"When do you want me to come?"
"Now, if you will."
"Not now. I must have time to consider. I hardly ever leave my house, and then only for a short walk. And did not I tell you that I visit no one?"
"But you will oblige me in this?"
"I am not sure. You have no claims on me that I should favour you more than any one else. I will think over it, and tell you to-morrow. Will you come to watch me again at the gate?"
"If I may?"
"Oh, you may. The fields are not mine; and I have no right to forbid trespassers."
"I will come to the gate at the hour I met you to-day."
"Yes."
"And you will accompany me over my grounds."