lose by. She slipped a letter into the box, and begging me not to
come near the shop, went back. I asked her to write me, and arranged to
send my letters to this post-office. I wrote twice, and got no reply.
Angry I wrote that I must see her, and had something to tell her; then
I got a scrawl in reply. She met me, and I took her to a house near her
aunt's.

Molly did not like me. When I got her into the room, she refused to let
me have her, and begged me to tell her what I had heard. I invented some
nonsense; and she said that was not what I had to say, she was sure. I
recollect sitting and talking with my prick out, and she looked at it
sulkily; but she resisted me. I said, "How is Giles' head?" "What," said
she, "who told you?" "Nobody knows but me," said I. (It was one of the
most blackguardly things I did in my life, and am ashamed of it.) She
shed tears, but no longer refused me. I gave her a sovereign saying,
"That will be useful when you marry."

I made her meet me again, and then she told me she would go to service.
She went after a good many situations I know. I fucked her whenever
she went out. She was getting hot-arsed, and she liked the poking. One
morning I passed the shop, and saw loitering about in the streets in a
velveteen costume. Giles. She had written to him I was sure.

I dodged them in a cab, saw her come out, and as fast as they could they
went to a low coffee-shop where there were beds. I daresay my money paid
for their refreshments.

Going to the street one day, there to my astonishment I saw my cousin
Fred walking about. I was in a cab, and he did not see me. I asked
Molly the next time if she knew if Fred was in town. She said no, seemed
astonished, and I believed her; but I was sure Fred was after her, and
could not imagine how he had found out her address. Laura perhaps took
the starch out of him, for I never saw him in the street again. Molly
now got fond of money. One day I took her to a baudy house near the
Haymarket, feasted her, and fucked her till I was empty, and she full.
Then I went back to the country to see my aunt, and soon again I got
Pender. Said she among other gossip, "That gal Molly Brown will give her
mother trouble, she has been after a situation in London, and her aunt
says has been seen going into a house with a man, Giles has left the
village, her mother believes he is after her, so she has sent for her
back." Sure enough in two or three days there was Molly, looking