” He said. ’
The captain shook his head. "What is it?"
"Can't you see? Together, down there; you and I!… As my wife!
Both of us, never to be lonely again!… Will you marry me, Ruth?"
As many a wiser woman had done, Ruth mistook thrilling eagerness for love. "Is it wrong, then, to surrender to good
impulses?"
"In the present instance, yes. I should be sorry if Shotbolt got the reward. I
gather you wish to go up in some fantastic get-up, wrapped about in your opera
cloak, and that after the festivities you propose to stay with these friends of
yours, and without any older people in your party, at an hotel. “I can get very angry. She could visualize the picture she had presented, particularly the battered
papier-mâché kitbag at her feet. ”
“All the more reason why she shouldn’t get herself talked about. "
"That's right," replied Wild, with a ghastly smile. ’
The footman did not object, but it was plain he felt he was neglecting his duty,
for he emitted an admonitory cough, causing the captain to pause in his way to
the library across the hall. But, moving through into the first of the large main rooms that led one into
another around the house, with here and there an antechamber between, it was
obvious that the task was not going to be easy. She was to fall back amongst the ruck, a young
woman of talent, content perhaps to earn a scanty living by painting Christmas
cards, or teaching at a kindergarten.
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