After the robbery (3)

 

'Nothing , ma'an,' replied the old woman outside. 'But she says she has something to tell you, which you must hear. she won't die quietly till you come.'

 

Complaining loudly, Mrs Corney asked Mr Brmble to wait until she came back. Then she followed the old woman up the atairs.

 

Old sally lay in bed in a freezing cold room. The fire was so small and mean that it gave no warmth at all.

 

Mrs Corney bent over the bed , and the dying woman opened her eyes. 'Come closer,' she murmured, 'Let me shisper in you ear.' She held onto Mrs Corney's arm and pulled her down towards her. 'In this same room I once helped a pretty young woman who came in with cut and bleeding feet , who gave birth to a boy and then died.'