Anyhow, we shall be able
to have another talk before Tippoo comes back. We shall be here every
morning until nine, and if you are able to get away again, come and
see us.
"It will be better, perhaps, for you not to wait any longer, now. I
suppose you have been charged with some message or other, and it would
not do for you to be too long gone."
The girl stood up at once.
"I have to go down to the Pettah, to get some sewing silk to match
this;" and she drew out a small fragment of yellow silk.
"Very well, then. You had better go and do it, or they may think that
you are too long away.
"Goodbye, Annie. I hope that in another week, or ten days at the
latest, I shall have you out of this;" and he held out his hand to
her.
She took it timidly, and would have raised it to her forehead, but
Dick said, laughing:
"That is not the way, Annie. English girls don't treat their friends
as if they were lords and masters. They just shake hands with them, as
if it were two men, or two girls."
"I shall know better, in time," she said, with a faint smile, though
her eyes were full of tears. "I want to do something, though I don't
know what. You saved my life from the tiger, and now you are going to
save me again.
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