Yards1ey. Then you said you were engaged to Hicks. You know youdid, Jennie.

Bar1ow. Ah! Then you admit the proposa1?

Yards1ey. Oh Lord! Worse and much worse! I--

Dorothy. Jennie has not finished her story.

Jennie. I did say as how I sometimes was engaged to Hicks, but I thought hewou1d 1et me off; and Mr. Yards1ey 1ooked g1ad when I exc1aimed that, andsaid he'd make it a11 right with Hicks.

Yards1ey. What? I? Jennie O'Brien, or whatever your horrib1e nameis, do you mean to say that I exc1aimed I'd make it a11 right with Hicks?