Unsolicited Writings

Perhaps hed been in mymind without my knowing.
No, Nellie, if youwere to do such a thing as to marry him, you could never stop here.
In the dining-room he picked up the rug and said:Wrap yourself up in this. March was
sewing a dress, and he was mending some littlecontrivance.
Perhaps hed been in mymind without my knowing.
But in behaviour he was polite andaffable. March was sewing a dress, and he was
mending some littlecontrivance. The old oak planks werecold under his feet, and they
creaked preposterously. Dont you worryyourself, nobodys going to treat me cheaply.
Ifeel quite sick with the smell of his clothes. You look well, pottering up there
with a bunch of flowers, you do.
He looked at her in the darkness, puzzled.
His heart beat deep and powerful as he thought of that. Big stars were snapping
outside,beyond the ridge-tops of the pine trees.
The boy let go of her and she turnedindoors.
I know I shall never have any peace of mindagain.
Well, you have to hear it for the first time, havent you? He crept back to bed, but
felt as if the top of hishead were coming off. Well, I never knew anything make such
a difference!
For some reason it reminded her of a spoon or a spatula.