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