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screaht had been too full of horrors And

she was too ill to atteo?

Katie was not there She could see her empty little room across,

with its cot bed and tawdry dresser Before, too, she had had Graha

And the voices went on

When she went back to bed it was almost dawn She heard Herman come

up, heard the heavy thump of his shoes on the floor, and the creak

i that showed he had lain doithout undressing

By the absence of his resonant snoring she kneas not sleeping,

either She pictured hi espionage

At half past six she got up and went down-stairs Aled feet behind her She turned and looked up at hi to make myself so-room From where he sat he

could survey the kitchen, and she knew his eyes were on her His very

quiet terrified her, but although the strap lay on the table he made no

move toward it She built a fire and put on the kettle, and after a tiht him some coffee and some bread He took it without a word

Sick as she was, she fell to cleaning up the dirty kitchen She went

outside for a pail, to find him behind her in the doorway Then she

knehat he intended to do He was afraid, for so to watch her lest again she aze, was intolerable