17/22 You made it for me and it's mine. Nobody ever made a real poem for me before. I want it." "Oh, nonsense, you don't want it." "Indeed I do. I must have it." "Will you promise not to show it to anybody ?" "'Course not! I'll show it to everybody!" "Then you can't have it. I'm sensitive, I admit, but I can't bear to have the children of my brain bruited to the world----" "I haven't a notion what bruited means, but I promise you I won't do that. |