“You’re nearly well now. But if yer can’t help me, yer can’t. I don’t know what’s to be done. Father can’t take me if I don’t find the money.”
“You say the agency wants two pounds for each person?”
“Yes, that’s it.”
“And I’ve four. We might both go if it weren’t for the baby, but I don’t suppose they’d make any charge for a child on the breast.”
“I dunno. There’s father; yer know what he is.”
“That’s true. He don’t want me; I’m not one of his. But, Jenny, dear, it is terrible to be left all alone. Poor mother dead, and all of you going to Australia. I shall never see one of you again.”
The conversation paused. Esther changed the baby from the left to the right breast, and Jenny tried to think what she had best say to induce her sister to give her the money she wanted.
“If you don’t
