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tonight you’ll never see me again.’
‘You seem to think that’ll be an awful thing for me. All I
say is, good riddance to bad rubbish.’
‘Then good-bye.’
He nodded and limped away slowly, for he hoped with
all his heart that she would call him back. At the next lamp-
post he stopped and looked over his shoulder. He thought
she might beckon to him—he was willing to forget ev-
erything, he was ready for any humiliation—but she had
turned away, and apparently had ceased to trouble about
him. He realised that she was glad to be quit of him.

Of Human Bondage