What message of comfort or support was I carrying home to-day?
What would my guardian, who had given me such yards of stern advice about honouring my betters, say when he heard?
Should I be sent to an office to run errands, or passed on to a school for troublesome boys, or left to knock about with no one to care what became of me?
With such pleasant misgivings in my mind I reached Fallowfield, and braced myself up for the interview before me..