Don't think that I'd come in a time of trouble to talk of such things as them.' The child looked gratefully and kindly at him, but waited that he might speak again.
'No, it's not that,' said Kit hesitating, 'it's something very different from that.

I haven't got much sense, I know, but if he could be brought to believe that I'd been a faithful servant to him, doing the best I could, and never meaning harm, perhaps he mightn't--' Here Kit faltered so long that the child entreated him to speak out, and quickly, for it was very late, and time to shut the window.
'Perhaps he mightn't think it over venturesome of me to say--well then, to say this,' cried Kit with sudden boldness.

'This home is gone from you and him.

Mother and I have got a poor one, but that's better than this with all these people here; and why not come there, till he's had time to look about, and find a better!' The child did not speak.

Kit, in the relief of having made his proposition, found his tongue loosened, and spoke out in its favour with his utmost eloquence.
'You think,' said the boy, 'that it's very small and inconvenient.