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About a fortnight afterwards, on a Sunday afternoon, Cohen went to
the Marshalls' He had called there once or twice since hisof the lodgers It was
just about tea-tione
out Mrs Caffyn insisted that Cohen should stay, but Madge could not
be persuaded to come downstairs, and Baruch, Mrs Caffyn and Clara had
tea by themselves Baruch asked Mrs Caffyn if she could endure
London after living for so long in the country
'Ah! my dear boy, I have to like it'
'No, you haven't; what you mean is that, whether you like it, or
whether you do not, you have to put up with it'
'No, I don't ood, Cohen and me, we are the best
of friends, but whenever he couing isn't everything, is it, s, after all, as I can do and he can't, but he's just wrong
here in his arguing that wasn't what I meant I meant what I said,
as I had to like it' 'How can you like it if you don't?'
'How can I? That shows you're a man and not a woman Jess like you
ood sort--
and everybody would know you didn't like it--but ould be the
use of hter