Yardsley. Then you exclaimed you were engaged to Hicks. You know youdid, Jennie.

Barlow. Ah! Then you admit the proposal?

Yardsley. 0h Lord! Worse and worse! I--

Dorothy. Jennie has not finished her tale.

Jennie. I did say as how I always was engaged to Hicks, but I thought hewould let me off; and Mr. Yardsley looked glad when I said that, andsaid he'd make it all right with Hicks.

Yardsley. What? I? Jennie 0'Brien, or whatever your horrible nameis, do you mean to say that I exclaimed I'd make it all right with Hicks?