He rolled on
top of her, pinning her with his arms and forming a
tented cage. ’
‘So that you may interest yourself in my affairs even more?’
‘Then I will go with you,’ he offered. “I was
able to borrow the money. ”
It was settled. How plainly he could see the patch of garden in the
summer sunshine and the white hollyhocks nodding above the picket fence!
*****
Ruth sat waiting for the half hour, subconsciously. So saying, he manfully resumed his work; while Wood and Thames quitted the
room, and went down stairs. Never. ”
He took out his watch. I am up to the ears in it all—
every moment I can spare. Good-bye, for the pressent—ha! ha!" And,
laughing loudly at his own facetiousness, he quitted the Lodge. “You’ll do no such thing, Sheila. If you know
her for the vicious, scheming wretch that she is, why in God’s name—?’
‘She’s not a vicious, scheming wretch,’ Gerald said calmly. The only departure which he made from the
fashion of the period, was in respect to the peruke—an article he could never be
induced to wear.
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