 
 <prompt> **CHAPTER XXIII.**

**BACK AGAIN FOR CROKER'S HALL.**

Around three o'clock on that day, Mr Whittlestaff come back house. The pony-carriage don go meet am, but Mary deliberately avoid am. She no fit rush go greet am, as she for don do if e absence na for another reason. But as soon as e enter the library, e send for Mary. E don dey think about am all the way from London, and e don prepare im words somehow. For the next thirty minutes, e promise himself small enjoyment, after that, im life go just be blank to am. E go go. Na only that one e don decide. E go tell Mary say she go dey happy. E go make Mrs Baggett understand say for the sake of im property, she must stay for Croker's Hall for some time wey e no go talk when e go end. And then e go go.

"Well, Mary," e talk, dey smile, "so I don come back safe."

"Yes; I see say you don come back."

"I see one of your friends when I dey London."

"I don get letter, you sabi, from Mr Gordon."

"E write, abi? Ehn, e sharp."

"E talk say you give am permission to write."

"That one true. I give am. I think say, maybe, e go take more time think about am."

"I suppose e know wetin e wan talk," Mary talk. And then she blush, as if she dey fear say she don show say she sure say her lover no go dull.

**Answers:**
1. E reach wetin time?
2. Wetin be im name?
3. Wia e bin dey?
4. Dem meet am when e reach?
5. Mary greet am when e return house?
6. Who greet am?
7. E send for Mary?
8. Wia e dey when e do am?
9. Mary collect letter?
10. From who? <response>: ```1. By three o'clock
2. Mr Whittlestaff
3. for London
4. yes
5. no
6. The pony-carriage
7. yes
8. for library
9. yes
10. Mr Gordon``` 