# Section : V
"Is it good?" asked Mrs Thompson, seeing with what a relish the food was taken. The child paused with the cup in her hand and answered with a look of gratitude that awoke to new life old human feelings which had been slumbering in her heart for half a score of years. "We'll keep her a day or two longer; she is so weak and helpless", said Mrs. Joe Thompson, in answer to her husband's remarkable, at breakfast-time on the next morning, that he must step down and see the Guardians of the Poor about Maggie.