“I want to get away from here to-morrow morning,” said Annie. “I want to go down to the docks, Sam.”
“My word!” said Sam.
“And I don’t know the way,” continued Annie. “Do you think that you—you would come with me and find a ship that is going—a long way from England—where you would take a passage for me? A steerage passage, Sam; I can’t afford anything else.”
“And lose sight on yer, miss, for ever and ever?”
“Oh, but—Sam, you promised to help me.”
“My word!—and I will,” said Sam.
“They are coming back,” said Annie in a husky voice. “I’ll get up early—quite early. When do you get up, Sam?”
“I am off to my work at five in the mornin’.”
“How much do you earn a day?”
“Five shullin’—and good wage, too.”