"You don't go up to any room here, you jade you." The old man as he said this got up from his chair as though to fly at her. And he would have struck her with his stick but that he was stopped by John Crumb.

"You don't go up to any room here, you jade you." The old man as he said this got up from his chair, and would have struck her with his stick had he not been stopped by John Crumb.
