The atom understood as clearly as Dick what this meant.

'I have been beaten before,' she said, still in the same passionless voice; 'I have been beaten worse than you can ever beat me.

If you beat me I shall write to my lawyer-peoples and tell them that you do not give me enough to eat.

I am not afraid of you.' Mrs.Jennett did not go into the hall, and the atom, after a pause to assure herself that all danger of war was past, went out, to weep bitterly on Amomma's neck.
Dick learned to know her as Maisie, and at first mistrusted her profoundly, for he feared that she might interfere with the small liberty of action left to him.

She did not, however; and she volunteered no friendliness until Dick had taken the first steps.