"'Be yu Anthony Widger an' Richard Yeo? Come in.'
"Dick, he went in behind the officer, an' me behind Dick. 'Twer a darkish passage, but as the door closed I luked, an' there, hidden behind the door, sort o' flattened against the wall, who did I see but Dick's mother; her'd come all that way by herself. I called to Dick.
"'What the bloody hell be doin' here?' said Dick swearing awful.
"'Don't thee swear at thy mother, Dick,' I says.
"'Dick!' her says, 'Dick, come home again. Your father's breakin' his heart.'
"'Go to b——ry!' says Dick, swearing worse'n ever, 'cause he was wanting in his heart to be home again, yu see.
"I burst out crying, then and there, wi' seeing Dick's mother cry, an' all o'it what we'd been drough. The Board o' Trade officer repeated as he'd help me an' no doubt find me a ship, but Dick—his mother was come'd for he.
"'Wer Dick goes, I goes,' says I.
"Then Dick's mother, her says: 'Will 'ee come home then, Tony?'
"'Wer Dick goes, I goes,' I says again. 'Twas fixed in me head, like.