In her little sitting-room she turned on the electric light and looked
around half fearfully. So the world is choked with waste and waiting daughters. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. "
The doctor was forced to admit the truth of this. \"
He piped up. “The Beck family has the cooking gene. Stanley,
putting his hands on the table in the manner rather of a barrister than a solicitor,
and regarding her balefully through his glasses with quite undisguised animosity,
asked, “And may I presume to inquire, then, what you mean to do?—how do
you propose to live?”
“I shall live,” sobbed Ann Veronica. Does it?”
“I think it does. ‘What is it that you told him?’
‘Nothing, miss, I swear. She had never been so disposed to
agree that the position of women in the modern world is intolerable. My
engagement at the ‘Garrick’ terminates Saturday week, and then I am free.
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