“That wasn't necessary, my dear. It's gorn to a pusson I can trust to tyke keer of it, and I'm trooly thenkful——”
“It jest amarnts to this, miss: the biziness is too much for the missus as things is——”
“I wouldn't keer if my 'ealth was what it used to be, in the dyes when I 'ad Booboo.”
“But it ain't, and she's often said as how she'd like a young laidy to live with her and 'elp her with the shop.”
“A nice-lookin' girl might 'ave a-many chawnces in a place syme as this, my dear.”
“Lawd, yus; and when I seen the young laidy come in at the door, 'Strike me lucky!' thinks I, 'the very one!'”
“Syme 'ere, my dear. I reckkernized ye the minute I seen ye; and if ye want to leave the hospital and myke a stawt, as you were saying—last night——”
Glory stopped them. They were on the wrong trace entirely. She had merely come to lodge with them, and if that was not agreeable——
“Well, and so ye shell, my dear; and if ye don't like the shop all at onct, there's Booboo, she wants lessons——”
“But I can pay,” said Glory, and then she was compelled to say something of her plans. She wanted to become a singer, perhaps an actress, and to tell them the truth she might not be staying long, for when she got engagements——