"Everything has closed up on me," said Peg. "I'm goin' back."
"Why, you've improved out of all knowledge."
"Don't think that. Me clothes have changed--that's all. When I put
me thravellin' suit back on agen, ye won't notice any IMPROVEMENT."
"But think what you're giving up."
"I'll have me father. I'm only sorry I gave HIM up--for a month."
"The upbringing of a young lady!"
"I don't want it. I want me father."
"The advantages of gentle surroundings."
"New York is good enough for me--with me father."
"Education!"
"I can get that in America--with me father."
"Position!"
"I don't want it. I want me father."
"Why this rebellion? This sudden craving for your father?"
"It isn't sudden," she turned on him fiercely. "I've wanted him all
the time I've been here. I only promised to stay a month anyway.
Well, I've stayed a month. Now, I've disgraced them all here an' I'm
goin' back home."
"DISGRACED them?"
"Yes, disgraced them. Give me that twenty pounds, please," and she
held out her hand for the notes.
"How have you disgraced them?" demanded the astonished lawyer.
"Ask me aunt. She knows. Give me the money, please."
Hawkes hunted through his mind for the cause of this upheaval in the
Chichester home.
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