If you will undertake to let the young man know that he is free, and to tell him that you were employed to compound for the debt by some one whom you are not at liberty to name, you will not only do me a service, but may do him one, and his sister also.' 'The last reason, sir,' said Plornish, 'would be quite sufficient.

Your wishes shall be attended to.' 'A Friend has obtained his discharge, you can say if you please.

A Friend who hopes that for his sister's sake, if for no one else's, he will make good use of his liberty.' 'Your wishes, sir, shall be attended to.' 'And if you will be so good, in your better knowledge of the family, as to communicate freely with me, and to point out to me any means by which you think I may be delicately and really useful to Little Dorrit, I shall feel under an obligation to you.' 'Don't name it, sir,' returned Plornish, 'it'll be ekally a pleasure an a--it'l be ekally a pleasure and a--' Finding himself unable to balance his sentence after two efforts, Mr Plornish wisely dropped it.

He took Clennam's card and appropriate pecuniary compliment.
He was earnest to finish his commission at once, and his Principal was in the same mind.

So his Principal offered to set him down at the Marshalsea Gate, and they drove in that direction over Blackfriars Bridge.