“What woman alta what?”
“Your polonaise. The one whe'e we stopped yestaday.”
“Oh! Well, I've been thinkin' about that child, Albe't; I did before I went to sleep; and I don't believe I want to risk anything with her. It would be a ca'e,” said Mrs. Lander with a sigh, “and I guess I don't want to take any moa ca'e than what I've got now. What makes you think she could alta my polonaise?”
“Said she done dress-makin',” said Lander, doggedly.
“You ha'n't been the'a?”
He nodded.
“You didn't say anything to her about her daughta?”
“Yes, I did,” said Lander.
“Well, you ce'tainly do equal anything,” said his wife. She lay still awhile, and then she roused herself with indignant energy. “Well, then, I can tell you what, Albe't Landa: you can go right straight and take back everything you said. I don't want the child, and I won't have her. I've got care enough to worry me now, I should think; and we should have her whole family on our hands, with that shiftless father of hers, and the whole pack of her brothas and sistas. What made you think I wanted you to do such a thing?”
“You wanted me to do it last night. Wouldn't ha'dly let me go to bed.”