With delicate touch he rescued
all that was possible of them, and made a careful little parcel. Both advanced towards it,
when, by the light of the lantern, Wood beheld, in the countenance of the
stranger, the well-remembered and stern features of Rowland. She found herself asking more and more curiously, “Why, on the principle
of the survival of the fittest, have I any sense of beauty at all?” That enabled her
to go on thinking about beauty when it seemed to her right that she should be
thinking about biology. “Had he better have a nurse? I will be responsible
for anything of that sort. But she no longer felt Jacomo’s age, even if
she looked it. ‘Could she have been a spy, after
all?’
‘Oh, she’s not a spy,’ Gerald answered, almost absently. If I could but——”
To escape from her thoughts she began to undress, humming a light tune to
herself, though her eyes were hot with unshed tears, and the sobs kept rising in
her throat. "What shall I do? If I persist,
I shall destroy her. ”
Sir John breathed a long deep sigh. She turned a resolute face southward.
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