"I will mention it to Mrs.Helmer, and I am sure she will be very glad of your help sometimes." "Couldn't you ask her now, miss?
I should like to know at what hour I might call.

But perhaps the best way would be to walk about here in the evening, after my day's work is over, and then you could run down any time, and look out: that would be enough; I should be there.

Saturday nights I could just as well be there all night." To Tom and Letty it seemed not a little peculiar that a man so much a stranger should be ready to walk about the street in order to be at hand with help for them; but Mary was only delighted, not surprised, for what the man had said to her made the thing not merely intelligible, but absolutely reasonable.
Joseph was not, however, allowed to wander the street.

The arrangement made was, that, as soon as his work was over, he should come and see whether there was anything he could do for them.

And he never came but there was plenty to do.