John disliked
me very much. He punished me a lot. All Reeds family was on his side and they
all disliked me. When I was reading a book John told me that I hadn’t been
allowed to take his books. He added that I was nobody in this family just
because my father had let me there without money. He was like a murderer. Then
he took the book and hit me with it. I fell on the floor and stroke my head
against the door. The pain was sharp.
He called
for Eliza and Georgiana and very soon they came into the room to help him. Georgiana
called Mrs Reed. She told Bessie and Abbot to lock me in the Red-room and I was
taken upstairs.