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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