The Return 231 II. "Would I had never seen either of you!" cried Jack, rising and pacing the apartment with a hurried step. So Ruth returned to her room and sorted the books and magazines the doctor had loaned her, inspected the titles and searched for pictures. She slept in a bedroom clad in linens and skins, walked down hallways bedecked in the most gay and colorful frescos. ToC As Jack opened the gate, and crossed the little garden, which exhibited in every part the neatness and attention of its owner, he almost trembled at the idea of further disturbing her peace of mind. She put a stool for him at a little distance from her own, and after he had seen the day’s work he hesitated, and then plunged into a resumption of their discussion about beauty. Somehow. And in these crowded four weeks, what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows, only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had plucked a bitter truth—she was alone. And now she insisted that she MUST leave the chastened security of the Tredgold Women’s College for Russell’s unbridled classes, and wanted to go to fancy dress dances in pirate costume and spend the residue of the night with Widgett’s ramshackle girls in some indescribable hotel in Soho! He had done his best not to think about her at all, but the situation and his sister had become altogether too urgent. ” “Straight?” “Not a bit of it! He’s been out after eight per cent. I was his wife. So, one day, because God was wroth, her mother ran away with a blackguard, and died in the gutter, miserably. I didn't expect you home before that hour, Sir.
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