Gay

( Walter ), in the firm of Dombey and Son; an honest, frank, and ingenuous youth, who loved Florence Dombey, and comforted her in her early troubles. Walter Gay was sent in the merchantman called The Son and Heir , as junior partner, to Barb a does, and survived a shipwreck. After his return from Barb a does, he married Florence.—C. Dickens, Dombey and Son (1846).