Well but, Miss Hood, I was saying that your father did me a great service; he lent me what was a large sum for him in those days--' 'Not a little one even in these, Mr.Cheeseman,' remarked Mrs.Hood.
'Well, well, but in those times it was a thing few men in his position would have done.

He lent me a ten-pound note, Miss Hood, and it's right you should know it.

Years have gone by, years, and any one would think I'd kept out of the way to avoid paying the money back.

I assure you, Mrs.Hood, and to you, Miss Hood, I give my solemn word of honour, that I've never from that day to this had more money than would just keep me in bread and cheese and such poor clothing as this you see on me.

Why, even yesterday, as no doubt your good father has told you, I had but a sixpenny-piece in the world, but one coin of sixpence.