14/17 'Tis time we went in." So I carried her in to her mother, and then ran wildly back to the river's edge, if by good hap I might see that lady return, or at least catch sight of her boat in the far distance. The tide still ran out, and amongst the many boats that dotted the water citywards who was to say which was hers? "A man came to me just now in the shop and said, 'Be you Humphrey Dexter ?' I told him no, and asked him what he wanted. He told me that was his business. |