Once more she entered a home, for another year he worked and toiled to pay the charges, and again he provided a new home.

And she came back to a house that he had bought for her in a new neighbourhood; they now lived close to me, and my house was open to them.

The story of the following years cannot be told, for she almost ruined him.

Night after night after putting the children to bed, he searched the streets and public-houses for her; sometimes I went with him.

She pawned his clothes, the children's clothing, and even the boy's fiddle.