If she is to have the good education and all the rest that Marcellus wanted her to have I guess it'll be your money that pays for it.

That's the honest truth, and I think you ought to know it." The Captain nodded.

"That's all right," he said.

"I expected just about that, account of what you said the day of the funeral.

Me and Zoeth are about, as fur from bein' rich as the ship's cat is from bein' skipper, but we've put by a little and the store fetches us in a decent livin'.
We'll take the young-one and do our best by her.