at she did it to keep her man and her family, and he got
accustomed to his woman getting his living for him.

I kept on calling at J... s Street, always expecting to hear of Sarah.
Hannah was glad to see me, for now I cast up her accounts weekly. I got
acquainted with two or three ladies there who came at intervals to meet
their friends. They were very nice women, none were ever to be seen in
the streets, they had either their own acquaintances whom they met at
J... s Street, or Hannah had introduced them to gentlemen there. They
were not a bit like whores in dress, appearance or manner, and my
acquaintance with them opened my mind to the fact, that there is a large
amount of occult fucking going on with needy, middle-class women, whose
mode of living and dressing, is a mystery to their friends, and who
mingle with their own class of society without its being suspected;
that their cunts are ever wetted by sperm which lawfully may not be put
there.

I began to stand wine when I met them, and was introduced as a friend of
Miss Mavis who had gone abroad. I was I found well known by name and
a character for kindness, and I expect also for being a fool. All the
women were shy at first, Hannah's sister (the servant) I overheard
telling Hannah that the ladies did not like my being in the parlour.
Hannah at times would ask me to leave, as a lady wanted to come into the
parlour and wait there, and so on. But gradually Hannah would say, "Who
is it?--oh! she knows him,"--or "Oh! she won't mind,--let her come in."
So by degrees I became intimate with these privately gay ladies, and
several of them on more than one occasion joined their sweet bodies to
mine in the game of under and over.

I had never had a woman in the house since Sarah had gone; firstly
because I did not then pay more for the girls than I did for the room
alone at J... s Street, and because, I feared if Sarah came back Hannah
would tell her,--as if it would have mattered to Sarah in any way
excepting that another woman would get the money she might have had.
Still I had that stupid idea about the matter, and although I had
longed for one or two of the other ladies, and although they had looked
languishingly at me. I never had then proposed a private interview
upstairs.

One day Hannah said she had heard from Sarah who had asked after me.
"They are (Sarah and the troupe) getting on well," said Hannah, "if she
says so I suppose they are,--but we shall see." Sudde