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Jill was quite willing to accompany Silas home for the tea-drinking. He told her about it on Sunday when he went to see her in her little flat.
"Yer to come down looking as peart as you can. Jill," he said to her. "The folks in Newbridge beats all folks livin' for contrariness. They think that God Almighty did right when He made a lovely flower, and mortal wrong when He made a lovely woman. They think as sweetness and beauty can go together in flowers but not in gels, so I want you to look your werry beat, my dainty little cuttin', and show 'em as they are all hout for once in their reckonin's. I'm thinkin' as maybe yer would like a new bit of a gownd; what do yer say to a yaller cotton now, made werry stylish? I don't mind paying a real good dressmaker to put it together. Come, now, would you like it, ah?"