She held in her hand the fragment of a hat, and her dolman had disappeared.

Her husband was not in much better plight; his waistcoat and shirt were rent open, his coat was filth-smeared, and it seemed likely that he had lost the sight of one eye.

Sitting there in drunken lassitude, he breathed nothing but threats of future vengeance.
An hour later noises of a familiar kind sounded beneath the window.

A woman's voice was raised in the fury of mad drunkenness, and a man answered her with threats and blows.
'That's mother,' sobbed Pennyloaf.

'I knew she wouldn't get over to-day.