She was a swan
among geese, trying to look plain and dowdy. Presently McClintock came in. Her fingers found the lump she sought and, with a little effort, she
dragged out the black-wrapped foil. He
was tall, nearly six feet, and from his stature it was clear
that he spent some spare time working on his physique. There she sought and at last found 107A, one of those heterogeneous piles
of offices which occupy the eastern side of the lane. In addition, the
Fadden Dance business, all out of proportion, occupied the whole foreground of
her thoughts and threw a color of rebellion over everything. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been
a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him
down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon
the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. ‘It is the life I know. He saw the expression
on the girl's face and understood what it signified, that it was the reflected
pattern of his own. Not for
me. Come along home, Ruth.
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