be ready to be called in and examined. She said she hoped Miss Maud would find me pleasing. I said I

    did, too.

    S me, t very softly, but at to put o t , and gree cold: for s once like notron of a gaol. I said, before I could stop myself:

    Youre not going to lock me in?

    Lock you in? sh a frown. hy should I do

    t?

    I said I didnt kno me.

    I ! I t.

    t upon t s  maid left ina. It oo dark to see. Mrs Stiles aken  my candle do and made great black sened my cloak, but kept it draped about my sravelling; and ten oo late—it sat in my stomac. It en oclock. e laug people o bed before midnig home.

    I mig in gaol, I t. A gaol  troubled your ears. And  to tside, you nearly fainted to see ables, ill and quiet the land beyond.

    I remembered ttering at a   t light had shone from.

    I opened my trunk, to look at all t I   Street—but tticoats and s Gentleman ake. I took off my dress, and for a second

    against my face. t mine, eit I found t Dainty  t  t t.

    I t of t Mrs Sucksby e as strange as I kne o imagine tting eating it, perirely.

    If I  of girl, I sainly .

    But I ears. I co my nig my cloak back on above it, and stood in my stockings and my unbuttoned s t door at t t. I  a key on  turned. I  and bent and looked—and  go and do it? But oe, and stoop to t, a s, no sign of any kind of sleeping or ful girl, or anything.

    I  raig my ear flat to t-beat, and tig must le in the wood.

    Beyond t, te