"I suggested you might help him to get a post on board a ship." "I imagine he did not suggest you should persuade me ?" "Certainly not! He refused to bother you," Barbara replied and, with some hesitation, added: "However, perhaps in a sense we ought to help." "That is so," Cartwright agreed.

"Why did Mr.Lister come to Liverpool ?" "He wanted to go round the shipping offices.

Mother told him our house was always open--" Cartwright nodded, "Of course! Well, I'll think about it and may see a plan." Barbara went off and Cartwright looked at his wife.

"I don't know if this is a fresh complication; but if she refused Harry, she'd no doubt refuse the other.

Perhaps it's important that she's willing he should go to sea." "One is forced to like Mr.Lister and we owe him much," Mrs.Cartwright remarked.
"Certainly," Cartwright agreed.