And now I find, when it is too late, that I might have deserved you—that I am as well born as Thames Darrell. And what took you to Remenham House?’ ‘I shall come to that presently,’ said Gerald cautiously. Ever and again Capes appealed to Ann Veronica. McClintock sent his yacht over for us this morning. But perhaps he was right not to tell you the truth. She came very near that night to resolving that she would return to her home next morning. To be free of outward distraction, he shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly, with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face; the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony; the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms, now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire. I can fairly understand Ruth; but you…!" "Have you ever been so lonely that the soul of you cried in anguish? Twentyfour hours a day to think in, alone?… Perhaps I did not want to go mad from loneliness. The gentleman appealed to shook his head in reply, coughed as only a Dutchman can cough, and raising his hand from the bowl of his pipe, went through precisely the same mysterious ceremonial as the Master. She shut the door behind her. They sat down at the dining room table which seemed empty and 259 huge in the stark, white-walled room.
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