THE SPELL
Mrs. Endorfield's advice was duly followed.
"I be proper sorry that your daughter isn't so well as she might be," said a Mellstock man to Geoffrey one morning.
"But is there anything in it?" said Geoffrey uneasily, as he shifted his hat to the right. "I can't understand the report. She didn't complain to me a bit when I saw her."
"No appetite at all, they say."
Geoffrey crossed to Mellstock and called at the school that afternoon. Fancy welcomed him as usual, and asked him to stay and take tea with her.
"I be'n't much for tea, this time o' day," he said, but stayed.
During the meal he watched her narrowly. And to his great consternation discovered the following unprecedented change in the healthy girl--that she cut herself only a diaphanous slice of bread-and-butter, and,
