Joey; it is yours.

"No, Mary; she gave it for both of us."

"Never mind; do you keep it: for you see, Joey, it might happen that you
might have to run off at a moment's warning, and it would not do for you
to be without money."

"If I was to run off at a minute's warning, I should then take it all
with me, and it would not do for you to be left without any money, Mary;
so we must halve it between us, although we will always make one purse."

"Well, be it so; for if you were robbed, or I were robbed, on the way,
the other might escape."

They then divided the money, Joey putting his share into his pocket, and
tying it in with a string. Mary dropped hers down into the usual
deposit of women for bank-notes and billets-doux. As soon as this
matter had been arranged, Mary opened her bundle, and took out a
handkerchief, which she put on her shoulders; combed out the ringlets
which she had worn, and dressed her hair flat on her temples; removed
the gay ribbons from her bonnet, and substituted some plain brown in
their stead.

"There," says she; "now, Joey, don't I look more respectable?"

"You do look more neat and more--"

"More modest, you would say, Joey. Well, and I hope in future to become
what I look. But I look more fit to be your sister, Joey, for I have
been thinking we had better pass off as brother and sister to avoid
questioning. We must make out some story to agree in. Who shall we say
that we are (as we dare not say who we really are)? I am looking out
for service, and so are you, that's very clear; father and mother are
both dead; father was a baker. That's all true, as far as relates to
me: and as you are my brother, why you must take my father and mother.
It's no very great story, after all."

"But it won't do to say we came from Gravesend."

"No; we need not say that, and yet tell no story; the village we passed
through last night was Wrotham, so we came from thence."

"But where do you think of going, Mary?"

"A good way farther off yet; at all events, before we look out for
service, we will get into another county. Now, if you are ready, we
will go on Joey, and look out for some breakfast, and then I shall be
able to change my gown for a quieter one."

In half an hour they arrived at a village, and went into a public-house.
Mary went up stairs and changed her dress; and now that she had
completed her arrangements, she looked a very pretty, modest young
woman, and none could have su