She would come back and write letters,
carefully planned and written letters, or read some book she had fetched from
Mudie’s—she had invested a half-guinea with Mudie’s—or sit over her fire and
think. ”
She sat very still. If
you had lived twenty years ago you would have been called a Young Person, and
it would have been your chief duty in life not to know, never to have heard of,
and never to understand. I want to make you feel that here
is a place where the crowd does not clamor nor ill-winds blow. They must have a key. Her husband had a great deal of respect for Sebastian as
well. He was reaching wearily for some kind of buffer to his
harrying conscience. He's on the ragged
edge. In Europe or in America people would have
smiled; but in Singapore—the half-way port of the world—where a human
kaleidoscope tumbles continuously east and west, no one had remarked her. If this is the young lady, she can perhaps calm him. ’
‘All the way to England?’
She opened wide eyes. Ruth, without suspecting it, had fallen upon a fundamental truth: that each and
every book fitted into the scheme of human moods and intelligence.
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