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As the spring waxed more lusty and strode into summer, Stephen grew conscious that Collins was changing. The change was almost intangible at first, but the instinct of children is not mocked. Came a day when Collins turned on her quite sharply, nor did she explain it by a reference to her knee.
"Don't be always under my feet now, Miss Stephen. Don't follow me about and don't be always staring. I 'ates being watched -- you run up to the nursery, the basement's no place for young ladies. " After which such rebuffs were of frequent occurrence, if Stephen went anywhere near her.