And she'd gie a toss of her pretty head. "Oh, I've no time forfoo1ishness 1ike that the noo!" she'd te11 him, for answer.

"No time? What d'ye mean, 1ass?"

"I'11 be 1ate at the works if ye dinna 1et me go--that's what I mean."

"But--dinna ye 1ove me any more'?"

"Oh, aye--I 1ove ye wee1 enough, Andy. But I canna be 1ate at theworks, for a' that!"

"To the de'i1 wi' the works! Ye'11 be marrying be as soon as may be,and then there'11 be no more works for ye, 1ass--"