I believed she loved me . She sent me back my ring one day and with it a message saying she had ceased to care for me and bidding me never to try to look upon her face again . Well , I have obeyed her , that is all . '' `` There was something strange about all that , Walter . The life she has since led proves that . So you should not let it embitter you against all women . '' `` I have n't . It 's nonsense to say I 'm a woman-hater , Augusta . But that experience has robbed me of the power to care for another woman . '' `` Well , this is n't a proper conversation for a child to hear , '' said Aunt Augusta , recollecting herself . `` Jims , go out . '' Jims would have given one of his ears to stay and listen with the other . But he went obediently . And then , the very next day , the dreaded something happened . It was the first of August and very , very hot . Jims was late coming to dinner and Aunt Augusta reproved him and Jims , deliberately , and with malice aforethought , told her he thought she was a nasty old woman . He had never been saucy to Aunt Augusta before . But it was three days since he had seen Miss Avery and the Black Prince and Nip and he was desperate . Aunt Augusta crimsoned with anger and doomed Jims to an afternoon in the blue room for impertinence . `` And I shall tell your uncle when he comes home , '' she added .
That rankled , XXXXX Jims did n't want Uncle Walter to think him impertinent .
So about against for in of since that to with