“How have you done it?”
“By taking in sewing. But that is a hard way of earning money. There are too many poor women who are ready to work for starvation wages, and so we all suffer.”
“I know that,” answered Dodger. “Do you live near here?”
The woman mentioned a street near by.
“I have one poor back room on the third floor,” she explained; “but I should be glad if I were sure to stay there.”
“Is there any danger of your being ejected?”
“I am owing for two weeks’ rent, and this is the middle of the third week. Unless I can pay up at the end of this week I shall be forced to go out into the streets with my poor child.”
“How much rent do you pay?”
“A dollar a week.”
“Then three dollars will relieve you for the present?”