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"But I've got to go to Kingston," said Ursula

"They've sent for me"

"They'll do without you," he said

There was a tre silence when she was on the point of

tears

"Well," she said, low and tense, "you can putto

stop at home"

"Nobody wants you to stop at hoe

She said no ance, in its own antagonistic indifference to the rest

of them This was the state in which he wanted to kill her She

went singing into the parlour

C'est la mère Michel qui a perdu son chat,

Qui cri par la fenetre qu'est-ce qui le lue renda----"

During the next days Ursula went about bright and hard,

singing to herself,love to the children, but her soul

hard and cold with regard to her parents Nothing htness lasted for four days Then it began

to break up So at evening she said to her father: "Have you spoken about a place for me?"

"I spoke to Mr Burt"

"What did he say?"

"There's a co to-morrow He'll tell ston-on-Tha dream Here she could feel the hard, raw reality So

she knew that this would co was ever