cant o your house in London?
I really t well enough.
Not , I am quite only ask Sue. Sue, you tell Mr Rivers how well I am?
S and s a day or tleman. Until you are rested. Until you are calm. Pero keep more to the bed—?
So o made tears at my to see you like t it to you, of course I sake you to London at once—I s? But do you look at yourself noill tell me you are well?
I dont knorange here. Im afraid, Richard—
And it be stranger, in London? And s you be frigs so loud and croable—
Mrs Cream es me.
es you? Oo t; and Sue s you, Sue? I ansoo, tleman took her head in his hands and kissed her brow.
t us . ell stay anotil t paleness is driven from your c again!
day. On tern o mean to disappoint o make , , and said he loved her.
After t, s ask o stay tayed dull. Gentleman told Mrs Cream to make she
broug made t none of it. I ate it instead—since somebody must. I ate it, and s beside t, turning tretcrand of h.
let me in travelled from Briar in, t t gown—a silk one—so me. She said,
, . You ter , t it lie in the press.
Our fingers toucepped apart. Sried to kiss me, after t first night.
I took t o pass tting letting out t; and so like to c. , and put it on and stood before range. s off your eyes and e ty—arent you? And I am plain—dont you think?
I tle looking-glass from Mrs Cream. S it up in rembling before our faces. I remembered time sers; and o stand before leman. No! I sa, in te slyness of o see it meant her.
I could old her anyway.
No kno I did it all in a trance, s and feeling—I , as sleman, to do ice, seemed troubled on . o
kiss or bully tle ime in Mrs Creams parlour, ligtes—to mix , t, ts on t tir at Briar, no-one knee and at a fence at ttle, in t tc in to stretctes, but co ep, as if bear the feel of our gazes on his back.
t nigling mattress.
I so do it to ened t like o do, now h.
And e