The Adelphi - FOUR: Traddles and Micawbers.
At the dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Waterbrook, both Trotwood Copperfield and Tommy Traddles promised each other to meet in future. But the meeting did not take place, and Trotwood was fully immersed in heated love, that to him the world outside did not exist. The warning by Mrs Crupp who happened to notice that there was a lady behind his unhappiness advised him divert his mind to the game of skittles. Skittles brought the memory of Traddles, because of the same ending, and he decided to go and look after Traddles. Tommy Traddles lived in a little street near the Veterinary College at Camden Town. The atmosphere reminded of the place where the Micawbers lived when Trotwood was in Murdstone and Grinbys. The houses were old and looked alike. At the door of a house stood afternoon milkman, who said, 'Now,' to a servant girl in her youth, 'there the little bill of mine been heard on?' 'Oh, master says he'll attend to it immediate,' was the reply. The inha...