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"I can go a walk if I like,
can't I?"
"And I should have thought you could get in to supper with the rest,"
said Mrs. Morel.
"I shall please myself," he retorted. "It's not LATE. I shall do as I
like."
"Very well," said his mother cuttingly, "then DO as you like." And she
took no further notice of him that evening. Which he pretended neither
to notice nor to care about, but sat reading. Miriam read also,
obliterating herself. Mrs. Morel hated her for making her son like this.
She watched Paul growing irritable, priggish, and melancholic. For this
she put the blame on Miriam. Annie and all her friends joined against
the girl. Miriam had no friend of her own, only Paul. But she did not
suffer so much, because she despised the triviality of these other
people.
And Paul hated her because, somehow, she spoilt his ease and
naturalness. And he writhed himself with a feeling of humiliation.

CHAPTER VIII
STRIFE IN LOVE
ARTHUR finished his apprenticeship, and got a job on the electrical
plant at Minton Pit.


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