"He may turn up at any moment; all sorts of unexpected things may have happened.

But I'll go again to his lodgings, and if I can't hear anything there, I'll set the police to work.

Will you promise me to wait here quietly ?" "No, that I can't do.

I want to move about; I must do something.

Let me go with you to look for him." "No, no; that'll never do, Ida." The power of speaking tenderly seemed to have been given to him all at once; this and his calling her "Ida," struck so upon the girl's agitated feelings that she began to sob.
"Let me, let me go with you! I will forget everything--I will be your child--I will try to love you.--" She was as weak as water, and would have sunk to the ground if Abraham had not given her his support just in time.