1 Royal Street, with an air of unfamiliarity and disgust.
At Dutch Debby's door he was delayed by a brief altercation with Bobby.
He burst open the door of the Ansell apartment without knocking, though he took off his hat involuntarily as he entered Then he stood still with an air of disappointment.

The room seemed empty.
"What dost thou want, Esther ?" murmured the grandmother rousing herself sleepily.
The boy looked towards the bed with a start He could not make out what the grandmother was saying.

It was four years since he had heard Yiddish spoken, and he had almost forgotten the existence of the dialect The room, too, seemed chill and alien .-- so unspeakably poverty-stricken.
"Oh, how are you, grandmother ?" he said, going up to her and kissing her perfunctorily.

"Where's everybody ?" "Art thou Benjamin ?" said the grandmother, her stern, wrinkled face shadowed with surprise and doubt.
Benjamin guessed what she was asking and nodded.
"But how richly they have dressed thee! Alas, I suppose they have taken away thy Judaism instead.

For four whole years--is it not--thou hast been with English folk.