‘Or pawned it.’
‘But why not the overcoat?’
‘Partly, I should think, because it’s the warmer of the two; partly, perhaps, because the other would fetch more.’
‘That poor man will die of starvation, some day, Edwin.’
‘I think it not impossible.’
‘I hope you gave him something to eat?’
‘Oh yes. But I could see he didn’t like to take as much as he wanted. I don’t think of him with so much pity as I used to; that’s a result of suffering oneself.’
Amy set her lips and sighed.