'No, I ain't,' shouted Ruby.
'But she is,' persisted John Crumb.
'Well then, I never will,' rejoined Ruby.
John Crumb turned upon her a look of love, and put his hand on his heart. Whereupon the senior policeman said that he saw at a glance how it all was, but that Mr Crumb had better come along with him just for the present. To this arrangement the unfortunate hero from Bungay made not the slightest objection.
'Miss Ruggles,' said Mrs Hurtle, 'if that young man doesn't conquer you at last you can't have a heart in your bosom.'
'Indeed and I have then, and I don't mean to give it him if it's ever so. He's been and killed Sir Felix.' Mrs Hurtle in a whisper to Mrs Pipkin expressed a wicked wish that it might be so. After that the three women all went to bed.