"What is it?"
"Can't you see? Together, down there; you and I!… As my wife!
Both of us, never to be lonely again!… Will you marry me, Ruth?"
As many a wiser woman had done, Ruth mistook thrilling eagerness for love. It was your sister who
married Sir John Ferringhall the other day, wasn’t it?”
Anna nodded. “How dared you do yourself
this injustice?”
“I did it for her sake,” she answered. What a contrast did the lovely scene she now gazed upon present to the squalid
neighbourhood she had recently quitted! On all sides, expanded prospects of
country the most exquisite and most varied. She hadn't
measured up; she had been stupid; she hadn't known how to make love. And then, for the first time, Wood noticed a small stream of blood coursing
slowly down her cheek. ’
Shock spread across her lovely features. "
"Because this child's life was threatened by the persons you have mentioned,"
rejoined Wood. “I mean to go to that dance! I meant to
reason with you, but you won’t reason. “You come into
these sordid surroundings—you mustn’t mind my calling them sordid—and it
makes them seem as though they didn’t matter. ’
‘Nothing of the sort,’ Gerald said calmly, sipping at his burgundy. All of us were fussy, colicky babies from what she tells
me. Fortescue rambled
round the garden with soft, propitiatory steps, the Corinthian nose upraised and
his hands behind his back, pausing to look long and hard at the fruit-trees against
the wall. The unpleasant oily
chill of fever overtook her body, and she watched in
horror as Sebastian carried her to his bed on his shoulder
like a sack of flour.
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