If he were her son, now! What she would have done with him in that case never fully appeared; for Mrs.Ferret could not bring herself to complete the sentence.

She only said subjunctively: "If he were _my_ son, now!" Then she would break off and give her head two or three awful and ominous shakes.

What would have happened if such a young man as Albert had been her son, it would be hard to tell.

Something unutterably dreadful, no doubt.
Even the charms of Miss Minorkey were not sufficient to detain Albert in his eager haste and passionate determination to rescue Katy.

But to go, he must have money; to get money, he must collect it from Plausaby, or at least get a land-warrant with which he could pre-empt his claim.