yes. Do not mind me, Trotwood,’ she returned. ‘Listen! Are you going away soon?’
‘Amigoarawaysoo?’ I repeated.
‘Yes.’
I had a stupid intention of replying that I was going to wait, to hand her downstairs. I suppose I expressed it, somehow; for after she had looked at me attentively for a little while, she appeared to understand, and replied in a low tone:
‘I know you will do as I ask you, if I tell you I am very earnest in it.
Go away now, Trotwood, for my sake, and ask your friends to take you home.’
She had so far improved me, for the time, that though I was angry with her, I felt ashamed, and with a short