The van started with a jerk and rumbled on its way. Prom a knot of idlers at a public-house, he learnt that Jonathan
Wild had just ridden past, and that his setters were scouring the country in every
direction. But when she reached the pavement outside her teeth were
clenched, and she carried herself unconsciously an inch or so higher. ’
‘Was it?’ Her lips twitched. Here was the same Ruth who had left him a few minutes
since: the same outwardly; and yet…!
On the ninth day Spurlock was up and about; that is, he was strong enough to
walk alone, from the companion to his chair, to lean upon the rail when the chair
grew irksome, to join Ruth and his employer at lunch and dinner: strong enough
to argue about books, music, paintings.
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