Chapter Twelve
sa come and t, quot;No!quot; Kept it ime. And o a nap like a peac! Dont care for lavender, you one of rose. Are you looking, dear? So t of dra draicoats, and stockings, and stays! Bless me, al drops— one pair of blue, one red. t comes of my not knoo matcy she blue pair . . .
Scals turn. to blur. I o weep.
As if weeping could save me.
Mrs Sucksby sees me, and tuts. O t a sleman, you see ?
Crying, I say bitterly, unsteadily, to find myself o t the closeness and foulness of you!
Sepped back. Dear girl, s Ricting take you?
I despise you, I say, for bringing me back!
Sares, t smiles. Sures about t t, I mean for you to keep at Lant Street! Dear girl, dear girl, you aken from make a lady of you. And a lady t je ting your s I said? I you by me, dear, ake companions? Only till I my une; t take t carriages and footmen well pearls, w dresses!
Ss o kiss me, to eat me. I rise and s tay ched scheme is done?
else? s to me? It une took you; it is me t you back. I been over for seventeen years. I been plotting and te since I first laid you in t Sue—
Sill harder. Sue, I say. Oh, Sue . . .
No I do everyt as ed?—kept idy, made a commonplace
girl of give he life you had from
her?
You have killed her! I say.
Killed ors about dont come cell you.
It certainly doesnt, says Ric, dont forget. I sy asylum, doo
me.
You see, dear girl? Killed for me! nursed ook s