CHAPTER XXXV. 

THE HULL OF THE URSULA. 

Ten days had passed, and Mark and Annaple were thinking that they ought to return to ordinary life, and leave the bereaved ones to endeavour to construct their life afresh under the dreadful wearing uncertainty of their darling's fate. Still they were detained by urgent entreaties from father and daughter, who both dreaded their departure as additional desolation, and as closing the door of hope. And certainly, even this rest was good for Annaple; and her baby, for whom nurse had discovered a better system, had really not cried more for a whole day than 'befitted a rational child,' said the mother, as she walked back to Springfield with her husband in the summer night, after dinner, on the day that Broadbent's negotiations had failed. 

'Nurse will break her heart at parting with her,' said Mark. 'I wish we could afford to have her.' 

'Afford, indeed! Her wages are about a quarter of your salary, sir! And after all, 'tis not the nurse that guards the child, as we have seen only too plainly.' 

'Do you think he is alive, Nan?' 

'I begin to think not. He is not so young but that he could make himself known, and those advertisements are so widely spread. I am sure poor Nuttie would be more at rest if she could give up hope.' 

'I did not tell you before, Nan, but Dutton was going to-day to look at a poor little unclaimed child's body that had been found in the Thames. He knew him better than I, so he went.' 
How long has gone by?
Who think it's time to go back?
Who else?
Who would they leave?
Who didn't want them to go?
Why not?
What else?
What other reason was there?
Who else?
Did it cry a lot?
Why not?
Who doesn't want it to leave?
Who says this?
How much is she paid?
Do they think he is living?
Who should stop hoping?
Why?
Who wasn't told something?
What was it?
Why?
Ten days
Ten days 
Mark
Mark
Annaple
Annaple
the bereaved ones
the bereaved ones
father and daughter
father and daughter
They dreaded their departure as additional desolation
dreaded their departure as additional desolation
as closing the door of hope
as closing the door of hope
his rest was good for Annaple
his rest was good for Annaple
her baby
her baby
No
had really not cried more
nurse had discovered a better system
nurse had discovered a better system
Nurse
Nurse 
Mark does
Mark
a quarter of his salary
a quarter of your salary, sir
No
'I begin to think not
Nuttie
Nuttie
to be more at rest
would be more at rest
Nan
Nan
Dutton was going to the Thames.
Dutton was going to-day to look at a poor little unclaimed child's body that had been found in the Thames
to look at a little unclaimed child's body
 to look at a poor little unclaimed child's body