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Updated: May 11, 2025
I was a little surprised to find Pagram at the office. "I should have thought you'd have taken a day off," I said. "Can't afford that just now," he replied, in rather a surly way. "All well at home?" "No." "By my watch," I said, "that office clock's five minutes slow. What do you make it?" "Don't know. Left my watch at home." I had noticed that he was not wearing his watch.
It was hours before Eliza returned. She burst into the room and said, "They're both better, and the baby's a beauty, and I'm to go back to-morrow afternoon." "Indeed!" I said. "I don't know that you're not going a little too far with these people." "Do you think so? I've found you out. You didn't tell me, but Pagram did. You lent him three pounds this morning. We can't afford that."
"Well, well," I said; "I've managed to get some overtime work, to begin next week. That that'll come out all right. You ought to leave these business matters to me. Anyhow, it's no good finding fault, and " "Does Pagram generally return what's lent?" I lost my temper and said that I didn't care a damn! And then just then I saw that she was not really displeased about it.
As a reward to Eliza I took it down and put it up in the drawing-room. She smiled in a curious sort of way that I did not quite like. But I thought it best to say nothing more about it. Properly speaking, we had quarrelled with the Pagrams. We both lived in the same street, and Pagram is in the same office as myself. For some time we were on terms.
So does Eliza. For two years or more Eliza and Mrs. Pagram have met in the street without taking the least notice of each other. I speak to Pagram in the office being, as you might say, more or less paid to speak to him. But outside we have nothing to do with each other.
It was on Wednesday morning, I think, at breakfast, that Eliza said: "I've just heard from Jane, who had it from the milkman Mrs. Pagram had a baby born last night." "Well, that," I observed, "is of no earthly interest to us." "Of course it isn't. I only just mentioned it." "Is it a boy or girl?" "A girl. I only hope she will bring it up to speak the truth."
Then one night they looked in to borrow well, I forget now precisely what it was, but they looked in to borrow something. A month afterward, as they had not returned it, we sent round to ask. Mrs. Pagram replied that it had already been returned, and Pagram this was the damning thing told me at the office in so many words that they had never borrowed it. Now, I hate anything like deception.
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