. ‘You could not tell it,’ said Melusine, ‘unless you were as close as we. Drummond smoked his cigarette meditatively. “Now I suppose Brendon understands exactly what you mean,” he remarked. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. He murmured his delight, and joined the bridge party, where he played with less than his accustomed skill. “I thought you weren’t keeping up to the mark. ” The dinner was admirable as a dinner; nothing went wrong, from the golden and excellent clear soup to the delightful iced marrons and cream; and Miss Stanley’s praises died away to an appreciative acquiescence. “Why could you not confide in us?” “Do what?” said Ann Veronica. Even this man had accepted her for “Alcide” without a moment’s question. There is a new life, different from the old life of dependence, possible. You know that I am practically destitute, without means or any certain knowledge of where my next meal is coming from. “Do you hear!” she said “whatever you are, wherever you are! I will not be slave to the thought of any man, slave to the customs of any time.
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