He had already
shown the covering envelope and its instructions to Ruth, and she had ignored or
misunderstood the warning. . "I don't see how
you do it, Hoddy. "Why, what the devil would you have had me do!—make myself scarce, eh? You
should have tipped me the wink. But that other world, in spite of her resolute exclusion of it, was always
looking round corners and peeping through chinks and crannies, and rustling and
raiding into the order in which she chose to live, shining out of pictures at her,
echoing in lyrics and music; it invaded her dreams, it wrote up broken and
enigmatical sentences upon the passage walls of her mind. You will begin to see it all opening out. Except for a few early ebullitions of passion, natural to a
warm and romantic disposition, and leaving no harmful after-effects—ebullitions
that by the standards of the higher truth I feel no one can justly cast a stone at,
and of which I for one am by no means ashamed—I come to you a pure and
unencumbered man. “My dear Annabel,” she said, “this is delightful, but I thought that it was
forbidden. “It is not, of course, a pleasant subject of
conversation for you or for me, yet I think I may venture to suggest to you that
your sister’s—er—indiscretions—have reached a point which makes a
separation between you almost a necessity. ”
Brendon rushed to the piano and strummed out a tune. She was a trained being—trained by an implacable mother to one
end.
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