23 May
23 May
23 May 1920
2 Portland Villas, Hampstead - London
The Baby
By
Katherine Mansfield
Call for him once a week!
with worn black button boots, like squashed fruits. "No" he said, lowering his withere legs from the sofa & rubbing his knee joints, "I'll wait a bit yet before I'm called for." She was pinning on her hat in the mirror above the mantelpiece, but when he said that she turned round & stared, a long pin in her hand. "I'm sure I don't know what you mean" she said loftily.
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He sucked in his cheeks & rubbed away, blinking, even as he thought this he collapsed, he fell sideways on the pillows, and suddenly ... in a voice that he's never heard before, a high queer rasping voice that got louder, angrier, shriller every moment, he began to cry ...
You know we've got you, she hissed. And he nodded his quick nod in queer approval [KM Notebooks, undated]