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and these dear, young women? If it comes to livin', you'd ten

thousand times better say at once as you hate bein' where you are

than go about all day long, as if you was a blessed saint and put

upon' Mrs Caffyn twitched at her gown and pulled it down over her knees and

brushed the cruy She continued, 'I can't abide

people who everlastin' make believe they are put upon Suppose I

were allus a-hankering every foggy day after Great Oakhurst, and yet

a-tellin' hter as I knew my place was here; if I was she, I

should wish my mother at Jericho'

'Then you really prefer London to Great Oakhurst?' said Clara

'Why,

here with you and your sister and that precious little creature, and

hter, than down in that dead-alive place? Not that I don't

miss my walk sometimes into Darkin; you remember that way as I took

you once, Baruch, across the hill, and ent over Ranmore Common

and I showed you Camilla Lacy, and you said as you kneoman who

wrote books who once lived there? You remember them beech-woods?

Ah, it was one October! Weren't they a colour--weren't they lovely?'