'How I should like to see him!' exclaimed the friend.
'So you shall, 'Tilda,' replied Miss Squeers. 'I should consider myself
one of the most ungrateful creatures alive, if I denied you. I think
mother's going away for two days to fetch some boys; and when she does,
I'll ask you and John up to tea, and have him to meet you.'
This was a charming idea, and having fully discussed it, the friends
parted.
It so fell out, that Mrs Squeers's journey, to some distance, to fetch
three new boys, and dun the relations of two old ones for the balance
of a small account, was fixed that very afternoon, for the next day but
one; and on the next day but one, Mrs Squeers got up outside the coach,
as it stopped to change at Greta Bridge, taking with her a small bundle
containing something in a bottle, and some sandwiches, and carrying
besides a large white top-coat to wear in the night-time; with which
baggage she went her way.
Whenever such opportunities as these occurred, it was Squeers's custom
to drive over to the market town, every evening, on pretence of urgent
business, and stop till ten or eleven o'clock at a tavern he much
affected.
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