A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. ‘This is altogether insupportable!’
She dug a hand into the recesses of the petticoat of her riding habit and a
moment later Gerald found himself once again confronting the barrel of her
overlarge and tarnished pistol. It came to Ann Veronica that life was wonderful beyond measure. He could talk to her as frankly as he could to a man, that she would not take
offence at anything so long as it was in the form of explanation. The next morning came a compact
letter from her father. Such was the condition of his mind that the danger
exhilarated rather than depressed him. ’
‘Between the devil and the deep blue sea, he were,’ agreed Pottiswick’s
daughter.
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