"I've been up and down the street looking for you," said the doctor. It was a piece of luck I found you. Were you coming back to Mistress Trippett's?"
"No, sir-not to the house," answered Amanda."Randolph put us out."
"So, I heard," Dr crider said "And where did he think you might go, after dark in the middle of London? You'd better come with me,? he said
They walked together. The lantern bobbed along, lighting their way.
They turned off Fish Street. They walked along a row of wooden houses. Dr. Crider stopped at one of them.
"Where are We?" asked Jemmy
"I've brought you home with me,"
They want inside. A night lamp burned in the hall way. The house was not poor but neither was it fine. The rooms were small, the walls were bare.
"Have U had Supper?" asked Dr. Crider.
"Yes, sir,"
"Then Perhaps you'll sit with me while I have mine." He led them Into the kitchen. They all sat at a table while he drank a mug of milk and ate a cold meat pie.
"They said you made Trippett faint."
"I only asked for the money. "
"What money?"
"Father left it but we'll never get it now, and we need it to_ to go to America. Ships will be going soon."
"How soon?"
"Next month."
"Is your father happy in the New World , Doesn't he write to you?"
" I don't know and he never learning writing or reading," she answered."None of us ever learned. There may be a school in Jamestown one day, and then_"
"Jamestown."he said.''That's where your father is?
"Yes, sir." she looked at Jemmy and Meg they had gone to sleep, with their heads on the table. She was so tired she wanted to lay her head beside theirs.
Dr. Crider pushed back his chair."Time for bed." he said.
He gave them a room of their own. It had a bed not just a pallet on the floor.
"Lie down" he said."There- I'll tuck you in." That was the last thing Amanda remembered before she went to sleep.