After more discussion it was agreed that it should be done, and Mrs. Boffin summoned Bella to note down the little purchases that were necessary to set Betty up in trade. “Don’t ye be timorous for me, my dear,” said the stanch old heart, observant of Bella’s face: “when I take my seat with my work, clean and busy and fresh, in a country marketplace, I shall turn a sixpence as sure as ever a farmer’s wife there.”