“This stirs one. She had been forced to buy herself
that pair of boots and a walking-skirt, and the pearl necklace at the pawnbrokers’
had yielded very disappointingly. “Well, no,” she answered. That boy—blind as a bat! Why, he hadn't seen the
Woman until to-night!
From the first chord of the Grieg concerto to the finale of the Chopin ballade,
Ruth had sat tensely on the edge of her chair. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. \" He panted, wiping sweat off of
his brow with a towel. I hold a warrant from Mr. ” He whispered with reverence. On the one hand, she seemed to think plainly and
simply, and would talk serenely and freely about topics that most women have
been trained either to avoid or conceal; and on the other she was unconscious, or
else she had an air of being unconscious—that was the riddle—to all sorts of
personal applications that almost any girl or woman, one might have thought,
would have made. What has been the matter?”
“Toothache,” he answered laconically.
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