[Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookJacob’s Room CHAPTER TWO 10/27
Ought she to have guessed? But let alone being a scholar he was eight years younger than she was.
She knew his mother--old Mrs.Floyd.She had tea there.
And it was that very evening when she came back from having tea with old Mrs. Floyd that she found the note in the hall and took it into the kitchen with her when she went to give Rebecca the fish, thinking it must be something about the boys. "Mr.Floyd brought it himself, did he ?--I think the cheese must be in the parcel in the hall--oh, in the hall--" for she was reading.
No, it was not about the boys. "Yes, enough for fish-cakes to-morrow certainly--Perhaps Captain Barfoot--" she had come to the word "love." She went into the garden and read, leaning against the walnut tree to steady herself.
Up and down went her breast.
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