"All right. Let's."
He was like that. When he was in the house he wanted to be on the moor; when he was on the moor he wanted to be back in the house. They started to go home, and he turned again towards Karva. They went on till they came to the round pit sunk below the track. They rested there, sitting on the stones at the bottom of the pit.
"Mary," he said, "I can't stay here. I shall have to go back. To Canada,
I mean."
"You shall never go back to Canada," she said.
"I must. Not to the Aldersons. I can't go there again, because—I can't tell you why. But if I could I wouldn't. I was no good there. They let you know it."
"Jem?"
"No. He was all right. That beastly woman."
"What woman?"
"His aunt. She didn't want me there. I wasn't fit for anything but driving cattle and cleaning out their stinking pigsties…. She used to look at me when I was eating. You could see she was thinking 'He isn't worth his keep.' … Her mouth had black teeth in it, with horrible gummy gaps between. The women were like that. I wanted to hit her on the mouth and smash her teeth…. But of course I couldn't."
"It's all over. You mustn't think about it."