The person in question had no spite against you and you would only have suffered a little delay." Then Mrs.Hamilton explained how a pickpocket had undertaken to relieve her of her wallet, and would have succeeded but for her young companion.
"Oh they're mighty sharp, ma'am, I can tell you," said the carpenter.
"I never lost anything, because I don't look as if I had anything worth stealing; but if one of those rascals made up his mind to rob me, ten to one he'd do it." Mr.Plank receipted his bill and Mrs.Hamilton paid him a hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.

Ben could not help envying him as he saw the roll of bills transferred to him.
"I hope the work was done satisfactory," said Mr.Plank.

(Perfect grammar could not be expected of a man who, from the age of twelve, had been forced to earn his own living.) "Quite so, Mr.Plank," said the lady graciously.

"I shall send for you when I have any more work to be done." There was no more business to attend to, and Mrs.Hamilton led the way out, accompanied by Ben.
"I will trouble you to see me as far as Broadway," said the lady.

"I am not used to this neighborhood and prefer to have an escort." "I didn't think this morning," said Ben to himself, "that a rich lady would select me as her escort." On the whole, he liked it.