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When she had become blank and timeless he came, and she

slipped off her seat to him, like one come back from the dead

He had sold his beast as quickly as he could But all the

business was not finished He took her again through the

hurtling welter of the cattle-ate He

was always hailing one ossip

about land and cattle and horses and other things she did not

understand, standing in the filth and the sreat boots of men And always she heard the questions: "What lass is that, then? I didn't know tha'd one o' that

age"

"It belongs to my missis"

Anna was very conscious of her derivation from her mother, in

the end, and of her alienation

But at last they were away, and Brangith her into a

little dark, ancient eating-house in the Bridlese and potatoes Other

men, other people, came into the dark, vaulted place, to eat

Anna ide-eyed and silent onder

Then they went into the big ht her a little book off a stall He loved

buying things, odd things that he thought would be useful Then

they went to the "Black Swan", and she drank milk and he brandy,