Falk.
A firm?
Miss Jay [continuing].
Of vast resources, I'm informed.
You can imagine how the suitors swarm'd;
Gentlemen of the highest reputation.—
Mrs. Halm.
Even a baronet made application.
Miss Jay.
But Molly was not to be made their catch.
She had met Strawman upon private stages;
To see him was to love him—
Falk.
And despatch
The wooing gentry home without their wages?
Mrs. Halm.
Was it not just a too romantic match?
Miss Jay.
And then there was a terrible old father,
Whose sport was thrusting happy souls apart;
She had a guardian also, as I gather,
To add fresh torment to her tortured heart.
But each of them was loyal to his vow;
A straw-thatched cottage and a snow-white ewe
They dream'd of, just enough to nourish two—
