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"I shall not tell you," defiantly

"I ary with you, Alathea," my voice was stern

"I don't care!" hers was passionate

"I think you are very rude"

"You have toldI will do nothing but just be your servant to obey orders which

relate to the work I have been engaged for"

I felt so furious I had to lie back in my chair and shut my eye

"You have a very poor sense of a bargain, if you only keep it in the

letter Your underneath constant hostilityso

difficult, the inference of your whole attitude towardyou say and do, is that you feel injured, that you have soainst me"

I tried to speak levelly

"What on earth have I ever done to you except treat you with every

courtesy? Except that one day when you had the baby in your arized, and that one other tih afterwards and have regretted it ever

since What is the reason of your attitude; it is absolutely unfair?"

This seemed to upset her considerably She hated the idea that she was

thought unfair It may have made her realize too that she had a