"Are you returning to Hong-Kong to-morrow by the day boat?"
For a moment Ruth was astonished at the sound of the spinster's voice. It contains news of the serious illness of a near relation at Paris. But, as soon as he perceived who it was, he roused himself, and
glared fiercely at the intruder from under his bent brows. Squads reached to the very portal of that centre of
disturbance. There was also a curious interview at a big hotel with a middle-aged,
white-powdered woman, all covered with jewels and reeking of scent, who
wanted a Companion. "
"Back, villain!" said the knight, haughtily. “If only I could afford another!” she thought regretfully. Only one thing emerged with
any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was
saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is
unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a
trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage
was an experience to be strenuously evaded. Over one of the pinnacles
of the tower a speck of pallid light marked the position of the moon, then newly
born and newly risen. But there was nothing in her bearing that a
passer-by would have noted, to tell of the excitement that possessed her. Time enough to do so when she has her affairs
settled—if she can settle them. I have
been sitting with him ever since.
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