"I dare say you are right. But you have earned your dinner anyhow; and here comes my housekeeper to say it is ready. Come along."
Thomas's face fell.
"I thought I should have gone to see Lucy, now, sir."
"I believe she will not be at home."
"She was always home from Mrs. Morgenstern's before now."
"Yes. But she has to work much harder now. You see her grandmother is dependent on her now."
"And where are they? My father told me himself he had turned them out of the house in Guild Court."
"Yes. But they are no farther off for that; they have lodgings at Mr. Kitely's. I think you had better go and see your friends the sailor and publican after dinner, and by the time you come back, I shall have arranged for your seeing her. You would hardly like to take your chance, and find her with her grandmother and Mattie."
"Who is Mattie? Oh! I know—that dreadful little imp of Kitely's."