He had been gone entirely one day, for yesterday afternoon he had departed from Remenham House, and she had waited with patience like a saint, and now it was again the afternoon. 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. “I’m not going to kill you, John. And here are these places, full of contagion! “Of course, this is the real texture of life, this is what we refined secure people forget. ’ ‘Eh? Why did you not say so, man?’ demanded Hilary crossly. He had need of all the inexhaustible energy of his character to support him through his toilsome walk over the wet grass, or along the slippery ploughed land. She winced when first she heard the preparation-room door open and Capes came down the laboratory; but when at last he reached her she was self-possessed. It would be the wrappered world almost at its best. "But this is good enough to travel in, isn't it?" "To be sure it is. I will do all this not because I love you, but—because you are Anna’s sister. And she seemed always to keep one eye on Ann Veronica’s dress. ‘God loves you, even if your father didn’t. He had shaved his side-whiskers and come over in flannels, but he was still indisputably the same person who had attended Ann Veronica for the measles and when she swallowed the fish-bone. But Ruth was his woman, and he had sworn to God to defend her. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady.
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