Pennyloaf explained her own position, and with the result that her
acquaintance, by name Mrs. Todd, proposed a partnership. Why
shouldn't they share a room, work together with the needle in
patching and making, and by Pennyloaf's staying at home each evening
keep the tribe of youngsters out of danger? This project was carried
out; the two brought their furniture together into a garret, and it
seemed probable that they would succeed in keeping themselves alive.
But before this settlement was effected Jane's own prospects had
undergone a change of some importance. For a fortnight nothing was
heard of Joseph Snowdon in Hanover Street; then there came a letter
from him; it bore a Liverpool postmark, but was headed with no
address. Joseph wrote that the business to which he had alluded was
already summoning him from England; he regretted that there had not
even been time for him to say farewell to his daughter. However, he
would write to her occasionally during his absence, and hoped to
hear from her. The allowance of two pounds a week would be duly paid
by an agent, and on receiving it each Saturday she was to forward an
acknowledgment to 'Mr.
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