" Spurlock entered the office, passed Ruth without observing her (or if he did observe her, failed to recognize her), and deposited his funds with the manager. 9. ” He pronounced this with an air of profound conviction and with his eyes on Ann Veronica’s face. How clever she was, to fool everybody so easily! Not yet had any one suspected the truth: that she was, in a certain worldly sense, only four weeks old, that her every act had been written down on paper beforehand, and that her success lay in rigidly observing the rules which she herself had drafted to govern her conduct. Already she had sent him twenty pounds, and never written to explain to him why it was she had not sent it back sharply directly he returned it. The necessity of defending herself and assuming a confident and secure tone did much to dispell the sense of being exposed and indefensible in a huge dingy world that abounded in sinister possibilities. The customary gold band was missing; but a soft gold Chinese ring Spurlock had picked up in Singapore—the characters representing good luck and prosperity—was slipped over Ruth's third finger. She got into rows through meddling with their shoes and tennis-rackets, and had moments of carefully concealed admiration when she was privileged to see them just before her bedtime, rather radiantly dressed in white or pink or amber and prepared to go out with her mother. "Good night!" "So," muttered Jonathan, "having started the hare, I'll now unleash the hounds. But did any woman get anything better from a man? Perhaps every woman conceals herself from a man perforce!. " "Who?" almost screamed Mrs. One mistress enough to ruin a man,—two, the devil. The evenings were beginning to draw out, and it would not be dark for an hour.
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