But it's no good; he won't come 'ome; he's always got fellers an' girls to go round with.

He took his hoath as he'd come back to-night, an' then it come into my 'ed as I'd put my best things on, just to--you know what I mean, Miss Snowdon.

But he won't come before twelve o'clock; I know he won't.

An' I get that low sittin' 'ere, you can't think I can't go nowhere, because o' the children.

If it wasn't for them I could go to work again, an' I'd be that glad; I feel as if my 'ed would drop off sometimes! I _ham_ so glad you just come in!' Jane had tried so many forms of encouragement, of consolation, on previous occasions that she knew not how to repeat herself.