"I feel as if a ton weight were off my mind." "Hurrah," said Tom.

"I knew it would be; but tell us all about it." "Well, I just told him all about it.

You can't think how kind and gentle he was, the great grim man, whom I've feared more than anybody on earth.
When I stuck, he lifted me just as if I'd been a little child.

And he seemed to know all I'd felt, and to have gone through it all.

And I burst out crying--more than I've done this five years; and he sat down by me, and stroked my head; and I went blundering on, and told him all--much worse things than I've told you.