want-me

Updated: May 29, 2025

He brought her food also, and they ate together in the quiet room where the ever-changing breathing of the man upon the bed was the only sound. He would have left them alone then, but she whispered to him to come back. He came and bent over her. "I'll smoke on the stoep," he said. "You have only to raise your voice if you want-me, and I shall hear."

Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell - The Top of the World