I felt a great weight taken off my mind by this promise: but even this was not all, for Peggotty went on to say:

“I’m a-going, Davy, you see, to my brother’s, first, for another fortnight’s visit⁠—just till I have had time to look about me, and get to be something like myself again. Now, I have been thinking that perhaps, as they don’t want you here at present, you might be let to go along with me.”