She sat down, trembling, weak and faint.

Mr.Dinneford waited for some moments, looking at her with a tender concern, before speaking.
"Where have you been, my dear ?" he asked, at length.
After a little hesitation, Edith told her father about her visit to Briar street and the shock she had received.
"You were wrong," he answered, gravely.

"It is most fortunate for you that you took the child's advice and called at the mission.

If you had gone to Grubb's court alone, you might not have come out alive." "Oh no, father! It can't be so bad as that." "It is just as bad as that," he replied, with a troubled face and manner.

"Grubb's court is one of the traps into which unwary victims are drawn that they may be plundered.