Only let him come a-lecturin' hereabouts, that's all!' 'Kate,' broke in the other, 'if you do anything of the kind, I don't know how I shall speak to you again.

Its not you he's harmed; you've no right to spread talk about me It's my affair, and I must do as I think fit.

It's all over and there's no occasion for neither you nor me to speak of him again I'm going out this afternoon to find a room for us, and we shall be no worse off than we was before.

We've got to work, that's all, and to earn our living like other women do.' Her sister stared incredulously.
'You mean to say he's stopped sending money ?' 'I have refused to take it.' 'You've done _what_?
Well, of all the--!' Comparisons failed her.

'And I've got to take these children back again into a hole like the last?
Not me! You do as you like; I suppose you know your own business.