Spurlock understood that his vantage would be temporary; the Wastrel had
been knocked down, not out. To recreate the era, I deliberately tried to avoid creating a
thinly disguised bodice ripper where an
“empowered” woman mouthed off to prospective
suitors in jerkins and tights, in other words, a typical
romance novel. “What do you think of them?”
Anna extended her critical survey and shrugged her shoulders. Presently you will see that I am right, and then you
shall take your vacation over here, and we will be good comrades again. 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. ‘Jacques?’ she called out, forgetting the need for silence.
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