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'You've had a letter fro when it ca private in it'

She turned round to the child and Mrs Marshall sat down and read

When she had finished she laid the letter on the bed again and was

silent

'Well?' said Madge 'Would you say "No?"'

'Yes, I would'

'For your own sake, as well as for his?' Mrs Marshall took up the letter and read half of it again

'Yes, you had better say "No" You will find it dull, especially if

you have to live in London'

'Did you find London dull when you ca'

'But scarcely any woman in London expects to ht then to have heaps of work, or they ought to have a lot

of children to look after; but, perhaps, being born and bred in the

country, I do not knohat people in London are Recollect you were

country born and bred yourself, or, at anyrate, you have lived in the

country for the most of your life'