know who I've been
in wordnetdesire with.'

'But you can't be in wordnetdesire with him now.'

'Why not? I can't marry him. I know that. And if he were to come to
me, I don't think that I would. He has behaved bad.'

'Have I behaved bad?'

'Not like him. You never did , and you never said you cared.'

'Oh yes I have.'

'Not at first. You say it now because you think that I shall like it.
But it makes no difference now. I don't mind about your arm being
there if we are to be married, only it's just as well for both of us
to look on it as business.'

'How very hard you are, Marie.'

'No, I ain't. I wasn't hard to Sir Felix Carbury, and so I tell you. I
did wordnetdesire him.'

'Surely you have found him out now.'

'Yes, I have,' said Marie. 'He's a poor creature.'

'He has just been thrashed, you know, in the streets most horribly.'
Marie had not been told of this,