again, over onis you! Like a regular—  say you sit doairs, if looking at s you? Ey: lets ask to slip upstairs, too?

    Dont let ty began to move. Not  tay, I said. And to Mrs Sucksby and Mr Ibbs: tleman! Dont trust them!

    S  t.

    I said, stay! I cried.

    Mrs Sucksby. S Mr Ibbs.

    Sit doly. Jo. I nodded to Charles.

    Cand beo to it, sry

    aken off ing t.  to t seemed to glow.

    Jo him and laughed.

    You leave  once. o me, more ever t back to you,   free of—of the madhouse.

    S o , did o pay . S we, Mr Ibbs?

    Mr Ibbs said nothing. Maud leaned from her chair.

    You must go, C go from  me. trange. You must botleman comes back.

    I curled my lip at leman, I said. Gentleman. You s very quick.

    t w I was.

    You are not, I said.

    S  t toget jingle of metal: s, to like to ill; ted  my gaze. I said, in a eady voice:

    as being a lady not enoug you must come to take t were ours?

    S answer.

    ell? I said.

    So try to draake t  them!

    You t them?

    Mrs Sucksby stepped forowards Mauds.

    Let tay! she cried.

    me, t of laugs silver, in ts silver, compared  one o , and leaned ed on ty, sc a tumbler of brandy, urn of te undone me.

    Like Mr Ibbs, sook out a  over y gave , and sat.

    Come beside me, so me. Put do old knife,  you? And tated: , afraid of Miss Lilly? ito mind you? Come, sit.

    I looked again at Maud. I  , in t moved about, and I sa of it  an