This was promptly accorded.
"Would ten guineas be of any service to you, madam ?" "Eh, dear, that it would, sir.

Why, my rent is just coming due." Under these circumstances, the bargain was soon struck.

Not a syllable about the explosion at Cheetham's was to reach the second floor lodger's ears, and no Hillsborough journal was to mount the stairs until the young man's return.

If inquired for, they were to be reported all sold out, and a London journal purchased instead.
Having secured a keen and watchful ally in this good woman, who, to do her justice, showed a hearty determination to earn her ten guineas, Dr.
Amboyne returned home, his own philosophic pulse beating faster than it had done for some years.
He had left Mrs.Little grateful, and, apparently, in good spirits; but, ere he had been gone an hour, the bare separation from her son overpowered her, and a host of vague misgivings tortured her, and she slept but little that night.

By noon next day she was thoroughly miserable; but Dr.Amboyne's man rode up to the door in the afternoon with a cheerful line from Henry.
"All right, dear mother.