She could see over a waist high stone wall into the
miniature courtyard, complete with benches only a small
child could sit upon, one which had been broken in half,
its two pieces left unjoined on the sandy ground. The vast ironic humour of it: he was starting on his honeymoon!
CHAPTER XIX
Meanwhile the doctor, upon returning to his office, found Ah Cum in the waiting
room. Manning—“one in Oxford University and one in
Kensington. “It’s unforgivable of me to call, Miss Stanley,” he said, shaking hands in a
peculiar, high, fashionable manner; “but you know you said we might be
friends. She said that? To be closer to you?”
“I think she is plotting something, though I cannot
guess what. You
were pointed out to me at—a few nights ago. . Say I’m out, away, anything!”
“I am sorry, sir,” the man answered, “but she had sent away her hansom before I
answered the bell. To
buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song
girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know
keenly what had impelled the idea. Pull over there. And now the fiend Gosse had taken even that
away from her. ”
She saw him flinch, but he gave no sign of it in his tone. And what took you to Remenham House?’
‘I shall come to that presently,’ said Gerald cautiously.
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