h lovers, look kindly on us!
me. I gazed hard back.
So , Mr Rivers—
O t. Do you mean to slight me?
Shen.
ts better.
ill on ilted upwards. Soucurned hem quickly back. She said,
Sue be careful, Richard.
he smiled and shook his head. he said,
And you t? epped from my s my ambition. And at its centre tly, so carefully and jar, you s knoaken.
, e o turned ale easier. t, and talked in murmurs.
And I remembered all s t, t ten it no love him, when hes so handsome and seems so kind?
I t, Of course sco ouc, ?
t my gaze and, stupidly, I blusoo. he said,
You knoies, Sue. Youve a careful eye. e s, in time. But today—le business, t ake you elsewhere?
ured o the door of Mauds bedroom.
t for you, he said, if you do.
I almost stood. I almost . So used , to playing t. te gone from suppose Margaret or one of to the door?
? said Gentleman. And if t ly silent. t me. Be kind, Sue, o lovers. Did you never of your own?
I migill . No suddenly, pretend to be a lord; he
s. I slept beside er; urn against ed to, like t! It . It ugged about and made nervous. I t, Damn you, Ill get my t the same!
So I said, I s leave Miss Lilly. like it. And if Mrs Stiles o , then I should lose my place.
me and fro look at me at all; but I knew seful. Sly,
After all, Ric ask too mucime enougo be toget we?
t rue. t close before ter a and se t one anoturbed. I Maud . And ook to rembled so back to all times I cremble before, and trembling for love. Once tood at ten did, studying ood te, turned. Sepped very sloly, from to to to t, across til so look at my of velvet, brushed my own.
You sely, s, not titches were crooked.
tood and said noto ask me, but dared not. In the end she moved away again.
And so our trap—t I so ligo lay—; and ed only time to go quickly by
and spring it. Gentleman ary until t to stay out r