The Adelphi - ELEVEN: Miss Betsey Is Bankrupt
Trotwood wrote a letter to Agnes about his engagement with Dora Spenlow. The letter also stated the plight of Steerforth and Emily. Traddles came to the Adelphi on two or three occasions. He met Peggotty, who had been by this time, a resident of the Adelphi along with her Davy. Mrs Crupp not at all favoured this. Her displeasure appeared, first as a long letter advising against 'spies and intruders in mourning weed', and when this was ignored, pitcher plants began to appear on the stairs - an attempt to delude Peggotty into breaking her leg. According to Traddles Sophy was the fourth among the ten. The mother of Sophy was a superior woman. But the damp country was not suitable for her constitution. And she had lost the use of her limbs. But Sophy is a mother to her mother, and other nine. Traddles was not living with Mr Micawber's. There was an execution for rent. Mr Micawber changed his name to Mortimer, and didn't come out till dar...