“Ah, well, it’s all over now.”

“What’s all over?”

“My life here, Jem. I shall go right away.”

“Go? What?”

“Right away. Abroad, I think.”

“And what’ll your mother do?”

“Forget me, I hope. I always was an unlucky fellow Jem.”

“What d’yer mean? Run away?”

“Yes, I shall go away.”

“Well, that’s clever, that is. Why, that’s just the way to make ’em think you did it. Tshah! You stop like a man and face it out.”