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hard, and very hopeful. Of course he is looking forward to
seeing you among us again. It is a dull house without my
Lady, and we shall all welcome her presence among us once
more.
About Mr Mellors, I don’t know how much Sir Clifford
told you. It seems his wife came back all of a sudden one af-
ternoon, and he found her sitting on the doorstep when he
came in from the wood. She said she was come back to him
and wanted to live with him again, as she was his legal wife,
and he wasn’t going to divorce her. But he wouldn’t have
anything to do with her, and wouldn’t let her in the house,
and did not go in himself; he went back into the wood with-
out ever opening the door.
But when he came back after dark, he found the house
broken into, so he went upstairs to see what she’d done,
and he found her in bed without a rag on her. He offered
her money, but she said she was his wife and he must take
her back. I don’t know what sort of a scene they had. His
mother told me about it, she’s terribly upset. Well, he told
her he’d die rather than ever live with her again, so he took
his things and went straight to his mother’s on Tevershall
hill. He stopped the night and went to the wood next day
through the park, never going near the cottage. It seems he
never saw his wife that day. But the day after she was at her
brother Pan’s at Beggarlee, swearing and carrying on, saying
she was his legal wife, and that he’d beers having women at
the cottage, because she’d found a scent-bottle in his drawer,
and gold-tipped cigarette-ends on the ash-heap, and I don’t
know what all. Then it seems the postman Fred Kirk says he

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