I will instruct you.

Y' 'ave been ill-nurtured, methinks, and yet ye have the makings of some good, and, beyond all question, saved me from the river.

Nay, I had forgotten it; I am as thankless as thyself.

But, come, let us on.

An we be for Holywood this night, ay, or to-morrow early, we had best set forward speedily." But though Dick had talked himself back into his usual good-humour, Matcham had forgiven him nothing.