Sons and Lovers - Daimon Club

"What is it?" she asked.
"The spring broken here;" and he showed her where his umbrella
was injured.
Instantly, with some shame, she knew he had not done
the damage himself, but that Geoffrey was responsible.
"It is only an old umbrella, isn't it?" she asked.
She wondered why he, who did not usually trouble over trifles,
made such a mountain of this molehill.
"But it was William's an' my mother can't help but know,"
he said quietly, still patiently working at the umbrella.
The words went through Miriam like a blade. This, then, was the
confirmation of her vision of him! She looked at him. But there