CHAPTER V
At dinner the spinsters invited Ruth to sit at their table, an invitation she
accepted gratefully. Ann
Veronica stared at his foolish, propitiatory smile, his hungry gaze, through one
moment of amazement, then stepped aside and went on her way with a
quickened step. He had fallen off when trying to tie down his
aluminum paint ladder. “Am I becoming reasonable or am I being tamed?
“I’m simply discovering that life is many-sided and complex and puzzling. What you would look upon as immorality
is here merely an established custom, three thousand years older than
Christianity, accepted with no more ado than that which would accompany you
should you become a clerk in a shop. What had urged her to wrench loose and fly was the guarding instinct of
the good woman. They seem to spend their time yawning and
inspecting their neighbour’s dresses through those hateful glasses. I wanted you to know. "
"That fiend is ever in my path," exclaimed Mrs. After he was gone in
the morning, Ruth would steal into the study and hurriedly read what he had
written the previous night. As a man, Sebastian had
always held enough power to live in luxury. ”
It was a tiny little room, daintily furnished, individual in its quaint colouring, and
the masses of perfumed flowers set in strange and unexpected places.
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