“Quite all right again, now, sir.”
“That’s right. And your husband?”
“Yes, sir, he’s had a rise at the mine.”
Mr. Winthrop smiled and was about to pass on, when he noticed an underlying current of excitement in the woman’s manner. He looked at her curiously.
“What is the matter, Mrs. Slater?” he asked.
“Have you heard the news, sir?”
“No. What news?”
“I be agoin’ to have lodgers.”
“Really?”
“Well I heard only last night, sir. Bill—he came home and said as ’ow Mr. Dickson, the manager at the mine, had heard from Sir John Forsyth—”