He reached out a hand gropingly, sagged, and toppled out of the chair to the floor, where he lay very still. There was still the pity of understanding in Ruth's eyes. One never knew when it would be necessary to resume her disguise. ’ *** It must have been fate, Gerald decided, near an hour later, staring intently at the closed French windows on the raised alcove that led out to the terrace. She spent a very disagreeable afternoon and evening—it was raining fast outside, and she had very unwisely left her soundest pair of boots in the boothole of her father’s house in Morningside Park—thinking over the economic situation and planning a course of action. Of course, why not? She would be honest, anyhow! She turned her eyes to Manning. ’ Gerald did not speak, but there was a look in his face that made Melusine glad she had at last had the courage to confide in him. ‘He had run away with a Frenchwoman, you see, but Everett Charvill—I refer to the general—took care to conceal the matter. Wood, Sir," he added, with much emotion, "is one of the best of men, and would be the happiest, were it not that—" and he hesitated. Peg after peg had gone down his blistered throat, but never had a smile touched his lips, never had his gaze roved inquisitively. Everybody breathed a collective sigh of relief in the neighborhood, no one wanted to see how those kids would grow up.
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