“You’ll be a solitary woman heer, I’m afeerd!” said Mr. Peggotty.

“No, no, Dan’l,” she returned, “I shan’t be that. Doen’t you mind me. I shall have enough to do to keep a Beein for you” ( Mrs. Gummidge meant a home), “again you come back⁠—to keep a Beein here for any that may hap to come back, Dan’l. In the fine time, I shall set outside the door as I used to do. If any should come nigh, they shall see the old widder woman true to ’em, a long way off.”