u like a  you should.

    S, says my uncle.

    Mr  is ting. akes tips of my fingers. Miss Lilly,  ever—

    Come come, says my uncle. Noedious. ep back from t;

    Fools, lemen  come, Im impatient to begin. You ools?

    I can fetc.

    o follourns, to look at me.  of o  airs. But , , raises my  to s at trip of skin exposed.  my c kind of matter mus pale, now!

    I ill laugs fall my urns from me, begins to mount tairs alone.  list slippers, t sockinged ce a   and make umble.

    I am standing, tep fade, o t look for me, does not kno I am till tened front door.  les, or  used to suc Briar, and  smarting by my uncles rike me noing of timbers and beams. I t must be rising in a cloud from tique carpets beneath his

    so follo flake and tumble from the

    sighe house walls cracking__

    gaping—collapsing in to escape.

    But I am afraid, too, of escaping. I t.  speak privately rey  dare to steal ime, to my o  secure me to s, and cakes ill; but sits at my uncles side, not mine. One nigion to say this:

    It troubles me, Miss Lilly, to t be, notention from o return to your he books.

    tting my gaze fall to my plate of broken meat: Very much, of course.

    t do someto make ttle liging or sketcerial of t sort—t I mig for you, in my oime? I t. For I see you s, from the house.

    or of music migon. Of course, I am not obedient. I say, I cannot paint, or draw. I aug.

    , never?—Forgive me, Mr Lilly. Your niece strikes one as