I got that. But the rea

 now characterized Miss Mowbray's conversation. In fact, the words,
'Now's your time, Bill', would have been, I fancy, unsuitable if
pronounced with that upper-class intonation. "I was surprised, I repeat,
then, at the remark. But I was still more surprised when, looking round
me in bewilderment, my hat and umbrella in hand, I saw the lean lady
with the woollen shawl leaning upright against the door out of which I
was just about to make my exit. She was still knitting, and I supposed
that this erect posture against the door was only an eccentricity of
spinsterhood and an oblivion of my intended departure. "I said genially,
'I am so sorry to disturb you, Miss James, but I must really be going. I
have--er--' I stopped here, for the words she had uttered in reply,
though singularly brief and in tone extremely business-like, were such
as to render that arrest of my remarks, I think, natural and excusable.
I have these words also noted down. I have not the least idea of their
meaning; so I have only been able to render them phonetically. But she
said," and Mr Shorter peered short-sightedly at his papers, "she said:
'Chuck it, fat 'ead,' and she added something that sounded like 'It's a
kop', or (possibly) 'a kopt'. And then the last cord, either of my
sanity or the sanity of the universe, snapped suddenly. My esteemed
friend and helper, Miss Brett, standing by the mantelpiece, said: 'Put
'is old 'ead in a bag, Sam, and tie 'im up before you start jawin'.
You'll be kopt yourselves some o' these days with this way of coin'
things, har lar theater.' "My head went round and

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