“You’ll come in, won’t you?” Martha had said. “Just for a moment?”“Please?” Eliza had begged, hopping between them over the cracks. It was plain that Eliza had fallen in love with Miss Fox. “I know I shouldn’t mind,” Martha confessed to Clive in private, “but I do.”I do too, Clive thought. “It won’t last,” he said aloud, in a level, careless voice. “It’s a crush.”“They’re the worst!” laughed Martha. “Crushes are dangerous—you’ve no idea what little girls are like.” Clive pictured Eliza leading Eliot round his home:“—This is the hall, this is the kitchen, this is where we watch TV and down here are the bedrooms, come and look, this is Mum and Dad’s and this is mine, it’s really small—”This was Eliot, pulled by the hand from room to room: Eliot looking, Eliot standing, Eliot peering and Eliot seeing. At last she said, “I ought to go,” and they all went out to the step.Eliza was hotheaded with excitement and attention.
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