Her mother had died when
she was thirteen, her two much older sisters had married off—one submissively,
one insubordinately; her two brothers had gone out into the world well ahead of
her, and so she had made what she could of her father. They looked out over the city, grim and silent now,
for it was long past midnight. The intoxicating sense
of novelty had given place to a more business-like mood. No Cantonese was in those days permitted to cross to the Sha-mien after sunset
without a license. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the
narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. ” She
could practically hear the self-deprecating thoughts racing
across his mind, the failed hours of rehearsed lines. She happened to have an acute
sense of form and unusual mental lucidity, and she found in biology, and
particularly in comparative anatomy, a very considerable interest, albeit the
illumination it cast upon her personal life was not altogether direct. Anyhow, now you’ve begun it, there’s nothing to keep us in all this from being
the best friends in the world. None of this by-play escaped Ruth, whose sense of humour needed no
developing. Set on unravelling her secrets, Gerald pursues every possible clue—much to the
indignation of Mademoiselle. But
I will not believe you. He was indeed still in the throes of his
bewilderment. .
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