and Johey could see your blushes now?
t , I said, firing up. Maybe I do. ?
God damn it, urn. did a soft ever do for a girl like you? do, for a girl like Dainty? Except, pero to s your qualms? Ss your grip, on tays— on . For Gods sake, look at you! I urned and picked up o fold it. from my idy? do you imagine you oo en to me. I knoalk to me as if s Briar for kindness sake—nor as if you came out of sness of temper! Your —as you call it—and er all: ters you art pumping waug.
Mrs Sucksby taugs of t w you are saying now.
Mrs Sucksby kept you too close, oo close. t, calling you slooo close, too long. too muc.
Go and fuck it, I said.
At t get up and me. But , and reaco grip tly,
Let me see you in your tantrums again and I one. Do you understand me? I o do you if I must. Sell o tend o put on your old stuff goo Lant Street hing?
I said,I sell Mr Lilly!
Do you to hear you?
tell Maud.
Go a tell it, t I ail , and cloven o act my crimes upon tage. No-one expects to meet a man like me in life, to believe you. S afford to believe you! For s marry me noay of ?
could I say? Sold me s. So I . But from t point on, I ted or t of Mauds slippers on tairs, and after a second t back and of curtsey. quickly to o the fire.
You are cold, he said.
tood before tel, but I sa t me. teful head.
Oerribly stern today.
Maud looked up. s this? she said.
I shing. he said,
Poor Sue is easing her, while you were gone.
teasing her, how? she asked, half-smiling, half-frowning.
alking of not you! So . S at all. I told of gazing at you; sold me to o my room. I said my ears of your s voice; sed to call for Margaret to bring castor-oil to put in te s your kisses. Sold me to take it and— he paused.
And w? said Maud.
ell, put it in my pocket.
me, in a doubtful .
ed still s your kisses, he said.
Sated, took in ouc t