She's married to a friend of mine now, young Sam Jessop.

I slips out and gives 'em a call now and then, when Hannah ain't round.

Lord, it's like getting a glimpse of heaven to look into their little home.

He often chaffs me about it, Sam does.

"Well, you _was_ a sawny-headed chunk, Josiah, _you_ was," he often says to me.
We're old chums, you know, sir, Sam and me, so he don't mind joking a bit like.' "Then the smile died away, and he added with a sigh, 'Yes, I've often thought since, sir, how jolly it would have been if you could have seen your way to making it Juliana.' "I felt I must get him back to Hannah at any cost.