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The Patriarch insisted on his staying to dinner, and Flora signalled

'Yes!' Clennam so wished he could have done more than stay to dinner--so

heartily wished he could have found the Flora that had been, or that

never had been--that he thought the least atonement he could make for

the disappointive himself up to

the family desire Therefore, he stayed to dinner

Pancks dined with them Pancks steamed out of his little dock at a

quarter before six, and bore straight down for the Patriarch, who

happened to be then driving, in an inaneHeart Yard Pancks instantlyHeart Yard?' said Pancks, with a puff and a snort 'It's a

troublesome property Don't pay you badly, but rents are very hard to

get there You have more trouble with that one place than with all the

places belonging to you' Just as the big ship in tow gets the credit, withthe powerful object, so the Patriarch usually seemed to have said

himself whatever Pancks said for him

'Indeed?' returned Clennam, upon wholeam of the polished head that he spoke the ship instead

of the Tug 'The people are so poor there?'