‘Well, that depends. “I’m sorry. ”
“You have not answered my question,” he reminded her. To be free of outward distraction, he
shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly,
with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one
end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face;
the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store
of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native
huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony;
the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its
white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms,
now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire. “I’ll be here at one in the morning. "
For a long time after O'Higgins had gone the doctor rocked in his swivel chair,
his glance directed at the map. Out of all this we
have struck a sort of harmony. Her grave fine face, her warm clear complexion,
had already aroused his curiosity as he had gone to and fro in Morningside Park,
and here suddenly he was near to her and talking freely and intimately. ”
They remained looking at each other for three or four seconds. "You cannot understand me, Madam; and it is well you cannot.
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