And now Emma is that ill she can't work; it's come upon her all at once, and what's going to happen God knows.
And his own mother cried shame on him, and wouldn't live no longer in the big house in Highbury.

He offered us money--I will say so much--but Emma was too proud, and wouldn't hear of it.

And then he went giving her a bad name.

What do you think of your husband now, Mrs.Mutimer?
I don't expect nothing, but it's only right you should know.

Emma wouldn't take anything, not if she was dying of starvation, but I've got my children to think of.