And now I'll take the other two pound ten and be getting off 'ome.

It ought to be ten pounds really with the trouble I've 'ad." Mr.Wilks laid the desired amount on the table, and Mr.Nathan Smith placing it in his pocket rose to go.
"Don't disturb 'im till he's 'ad 'is sleep out, mind," he said, pausing at the door, "else I can't answer for the consequences.

If 'e should get up in the night and come down raving mad, try and soothe 'im.

Good-night and pleasant dreams." He closed the door after him quietly, and the horrified steward, after fetching the bed-clothes on tiptoe from the kitchen, locked the door which led to the staircase, and after making up a bed on the floor lay down in his clothes and tried to get to sleep.
He dozed off at last, but woke up several times during the night with the cold.

The lamp burnt itself out, and in the dark he listened intently for any sounds of life in the room above.