But although I am going home, I don't know how long I may stay there.

Perhaps shall be off to sea in a few days.' 'I will use your own words,' said Madame Duvet, 'and say better stay at home, and take care of--let me see--yourself, I suppose.

You will run less risk than at sea.' Owen laughed, and said he would not reply in Howel's words, as he was not sure that he knew his own business best.

But he did not add that he should like to take care of Madame Duvet as she wished him to do.
Neither did that afternoon and evening at Abertewey improve Owen's opinion of its inmates.

French novels and betting-books were their sermons, and he longed to take his poor little sister Netta away from the contamination of such society.