'Oh!' exclaimed the woman, her countenance falling. 'You are the young woman, are you, that I heard tell of?'
'I am the young woman now in service there, but wanting to go and work elsewhere.'
'I've heard tell of you,' said the landlady dryly.
'What have you heard of me?'
The woman looked knowingly at her, and smiled.
'Pray what does Master Rebow say to your leaving him? You and he have fallen out, have you?' said the hostess knowingly. 'You'll come together all the faster for it. There's nothing like a good breeze for running a cargo in.'
'Can you give me work?'
'I dursn't do it.'
'Have you need of anyone now?'
'Well,' with a cough, 'if Master Rebow were agreeable, I might find such a girl as you wery handy about the house. I've lost the last girl I had; she's took with the small-pox. You could have her bed, and her work, and her wage, and welcome. But unless the master gave his consent,' she began to dust the table, 'I dursn't do it.'