She stared at his
pleading face. There was a bare chance that he had been
mistaken. Part 2
When at last she did so, the sapphire ring took on a new quality in the
imagination of Capes. When she came in after dinner that night, Ruth was no longer an interesting
phenomenon, something figuratively to tear apart and investigate: she was
talismanic. "
"No fear of that," laughed Kneebone. She began to look for beauty and
discover it in unexpected aspects and places. One was
in the Indian Civil Service and one in the rapidly developing motor business. To-morrow he might be sorry; but to-day, this hour!
She rose, not quickly, but with a dignity which only accentuated her beauty. But all that could be
ascertained in the village was, that a man had ridden off a short time before in
the direction of London. She would come back and write letters,
carefully planned and written letters, or read some book she had fetched from
Mudie’s—she had invested a half-guinea with Mudie’s—or sit over her fire and
think. ”
As Lucy got up to fetch Michelle a box of tissue, her
mind spun wildly. But I suppose as I’ll have to
wait until you can hear me to tell you again. Some one had once, in his hearing, called him a prig. “It is the worst of including in our
vocabulary words which have no definite meaning, perhaps I should say of
which the meaning varies according to one’s personal point of view. "
"Why, surely you don't think your guests would steal them," observed Rachel,
archly.
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