"Then to hell with you!" he cried with a kind of desperate savagery and thrust her brutally away. "Sporting with a man!"
He put on his cap and went out.
In a few minutes he was back. Paying no heed to her, he sat down at the kitchen-table and wrote a note, which he put on the mantel-piece.
"You can give this to Alf next time he comes round for the rent," he said.
"What is it?" asked Ruth.
"Notice," Ern answered. "We're going to shift to the Colonel's garage."
Ruth gave battle instantly.
"Who are?" she cried, facing him.
He met her like a hedge of bayonets.
"I am," he answered. "Me and my children."