Shall you and I go to them at once?
Yes, I'll go, and we'll see whether they will have the cheek to go telling about kicks on the bottom.

Kick's! I never took one from anybody! And nobody's ever going to strike me--d'ye see ?--for I'd smash the man who laid a finger on me!" Nevertheless, the storm subsided at last.

After all, they might jolly well what they liked! She looked upon them as so much filth underfoot! It would have soiled her to bother about people like that.

She had a conscience of her own, she had! And Francis, seeing her thus giving herself away, what with her housewife's costume and all, became familiar and, at parting, made so bold as to give her some good advice.

It was wrong of her to be sacrificing everything for the sake of an infatuation; such infatuations ruined existence.