Then
Courtlaw looked across at her with a white puzzled face. “You understand, then,” he was saying, “you understand?”
“I understand,” said Ann Veronica, tear-wet and flushed with a reciprocal
passion, but standing up to him with an equality that amazed even herself, “I
understand. Prudence? Mr Remenham’s sister that was. I’ll try to stay as long as I can. "But what does he mean by calling you a wanton?
—you, my wife?"
Enschede's hand slipped from his daughter's shoulder. “You must remember,” she said, “that you yourself are responsible for your
altered looks. All her tender lures, inherent and acquired, had shattered themselves futilely
against the reserve he had set between them. Gone
off, cool as you please, and left me to manage everything. To be free of outward distraction, he
shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly,
with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one
end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face;
the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store
of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native
huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony;
the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its
white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms,
now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire.
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