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He ground his soul in uneasiness and fear But she rose to a

real outburst of house-work, turning him away as she shoved the

furniture aside to her broo miserable near

He wanted her back Dread, and desire for her to stay with hier He

began to lose his head The wonder was going to pass away again

All the love, theto be lost,

she would forfeit it all for the outside things She would adain, she would throay the living fruit

for the ostensible rind He began to hate this in her Driven by

fear of her departure into a state of helplessness, almost of

imbecility, he wandered about the house

And she, with her skirts kilted up, flew round at her work,

absorbed

"Shake the rug then, if youwith resent She

was blithely unconscious of hi near to

her

"Can't you do anything?" she said, as if to a child,

impatiently "Can't you do your ork?"

"Where shall I do it?" he asked, harsh with pain

"Anywhere"

How furious that o for a walk," she continued "Go down to the Marsh