Peggy smiled. "I has everythink, please sir."
"That's right. Goodbye."
He nodded to her and was gone.
Peggy fingered her bank-notes with her bandaged hands. When the nurse came to her, she said—
"Nurse, I ain't quite sure of my sight yet; How many shillin's is there in those two bits o' paper?"
Peggy would not confess her ignorance of the value of bank-notes. She had never seen one in her life before.
"Shillings!" laughed the nurse. "Pounds, you mean. You have ten pounds there, Peggy. Shall I take care of them for you?"
Peggy was silent from sheer astonishment.
"But 'tis more than a whole year's wages!" she gasped. "Oh, how could he giv' it! Oh my! What a full stockin' I shall have!"
She lay and thought of her beloved stocking, and when her burns were about to be dressed, she would say to herself—