"I am pleased to see you——" (she was about to say "Benny," but checked herself), and added, "I hope your arm is still improving."
"Yes, thank you; it will soon be as well as ever."
"I am very glad; but how strange, isn't it, that I should have found you again?"
"Yes, very; but my life has been a strange one altogether."
"I suppose so. Do you remember telling me all about your life up to the time I first saw you on the landing-stage?"
"Yes, I remember. Do you remember giving me the shilling? Of course you do, for you mentioned it last night, but I wanted to tell you I have that shilling yet."
And Benny took the shilling out of his purse and handed it to her.
"How funny!" said she, taking the coin in her hand; "and is this the very same?"
"Yes; I have never had the heart to part with it, somehow, though I've wanted bread since you gave it to me. I call it my lucky shilling."
"How strange!" she said, more to herself than to him. "Then you have never forgotten us?"