"The poor little thing is very upset," she said.

"She lies and trembles, and has hardly spoken at all except to ask for you." "Well, let me in!" said Saltash, suddenly imperious.

"I've got something to tell her." He had his way, for there was something about him that compelled just then.

He entered the cabin as a king might enter the apartment of a slave, and he shut the door with decision upon those without.
Then for a second--just for a second--he hesitated.

"Toby!" he said.
A meagre form sprang upright in the bunk at the sound of his voice.