dark at tip.

    S makes enoug, for all t. hows her voice?

    remulous, complaining, like the shadow of a shivering man.

    Say a o tleman, says tron quietly. Say how you are.

    I am very ly. tleman winces.

    t will do, hen: I hope you can whisper? I hope you can nod?

    I nod. Oh yes.

    I ?

    I can.

    Be silent, ts better. urns to tron. I see s o keep . I dont care at all for  is too plump. It , and slouc of   a t? Did I ask for t?

    tron colours. It  of to keep ume of the house.

    o provide sport for nurses?

    ick upon turns again to me, but speaks to her. he says, how well does she read?

    ext and let rate.

    tron , and again tleman ly! il I speak it in a murmur. te t while he looks on.

    A girls  heless.

    I am also pleased. I understand from  I er I ed ters are my undoing. tleman leans ick and tilts acles, the bloodless rims of his eyes.

    ell, miss, o come and live in my  pus lip at me, mind! o come to me, and learn neat ters?

    ruck me. I s not at all, I say at once.

    tron says, For shame, Maud!

    tleman snorts. Peremper after all. Sy foot, at least. So you like to stamp, miss? ell, my o stamp in, far ao fits ttle o feed you, and t—hmm?

    s do  upon it. ruction to tron and does not look at me again. ake up t to the floor.

    I  go! I cry.  make me!

    tron drao ake a ious lunatics, but noure is to be, in the house of my uncle.

    Some men o

    take me .