And she'd gie a toss of her pretty head. "0h, I've no time forfoolishness like that the noo!" she'd tell him, for answer.

"No time? What d'ye mean, lass?"

"I'll be late at the works if ye dinna let me go--that's what I mean."

"But--dinna ye love me any more'?"

"0h, aye--I love ye weel enough, Andy. But I canna be late at theworks, for a' that!"

"To the de'il wi' the works! Ye'll be marrying be as soon as may be,and then there'll be no more works for ye, lass--"