“I do not like to seem inhospitable, Anna,” she said hesitatingly. ”
He smiled at the naiveté of her suggestion. He had nothing to guide
him; for though the torches were blazing ruddily below, their gleam fell only on
the side of the building. The more haste, the worse speed—better the
feet slip than the tongue. "Good-bye!"
For a moment Ruth was tempted to fling herself against the withered bosom; but
long since she had learned repression. Selling out of the Army to take up his inheritance had spelled boredom to Gerald
Alderley. “I mean it. The curtain came festooning slowly down, the music ceased, the lights in the
auditorium glowed out, and Ann Veronica woke out of her confused dream of
involuntary and commanding love in a glory of sound and colors to discover that
Ramage was sitting close beside her with one hand resting lightly on her waist. Help—should she need it—from the natives was out of
the question. “Let me think,” said Ann Veronica. Ice had begun to form in the shallows. ”
“Annabel, are you mad? To England! You are joking, of course. He was vaguely uneasy; he
knew not what about.
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