Where to raise the money he did not know.
After making his toilet, he rang the bell and ordered breakfast.
For this he had but scanty appetite.

He drank a cup of coffee and ate part of a roll.

Scarcely had he finished, and directed the removal of the dishes, than the servant entered to announce a visitor.
"Is it a gentleman ?" he inquired, hastily, fearing that it might be a creditor.

He occasionally had such visitors.
"No, sir." "A lady ?" "No, sir." "A child?
But what could a child want of me ?" "No, sir.

It isn't a child," said the servant, in reply.
"Then if it's neither a gentleman, lady nor child," said Somerville, "will you have the goodness to inform me what sort of a being it is ?" "It's a woman, sir," answered the servant, his gravity unmoved.
"Why didn't you say so when I asked you ?" "Because you asked me if it was a lady, and this isn't--leastways she don't look like one." "You can send her up, whoever she is," said Somerville.
A moment afterward Peg entered his presence.
John Somerville looked at her without much interest, supposing that she might be a seamstress, or laundress, or some applicant for charity.