A Girl Asks About Tiredness
- Cheap passage
At Greyhithe Gate a girl in a patched coat tugged the old lamplighter’s sleeve and asked whether the Lantern was tired or only dying. Eben Fray watched the Tide House’s smoke lift off the water, where Maudry Kell’s lamps had just taken their link. “Both, love,” he said. “Tired is how it looks from the ferry. Dying is what it is. Hold my hand till the rope’s clear.”