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I can only say one thing in answer: I must see you per-
sonally, here at Wragby, before I can do anything. You
promised faithfully to come back to Wragby, and I hold
you to the promise. I don’t believe anything nor understand
anything until I see you personally, here under normal cir-
cumstances. I needn’t tell you that nobody here suspects
anything, so your return would be quite normal. Then if
you feel, after we have talked things over, that you still re-
main in the same mind, no doubt we can come to terms.
Connie showed this letter to Mellors.
’He wants to begin his revenge on you,’ he said, handing
the letter back.
Connie was silent. She was somewhat surprised to find
that she was afraid of Clifford. She was afraid to go near
him. She was afraid of him as if he were evil and danger-
ous.
’What shall I do?’ she said.
’Nothing, if you don’t want to do anything.’
She replied, trying to put Clifford off. He answered:
If you don’t come back to Wragby now, I shall consider
that you are coming back one day, and act accordingly. I
shall just go on the same, and wait for you here, if I wait for
fifty years.
She was frightened. This was bullying of an insidious
sort. She had no doubt he meant what he said. He would
not divorce her, and the child would be his, unless she could
find some means of establishing its illegitimacy.
After a time of worry and harassment, she decided to go
to Wragby. Hilda would go with her. She wrote this to Clif-