.

Well, I'll chance it and go on.

I 'ate 'im because he's 'aughty--or 'igh-born, if you like--" The figure beneath the bedclothes did not stir.

Tilda lifted herself an inch higher on the elbow; lifted her voice too as she went on: "And I'll take 'im to--'OLMNESS--" She had been watching, expecting some effect.

But it scared her when, after a moment, the woman raised herself slowly, steadily, until half-erect from the waist.