He knew that at this moment Ruth lay upon her bed in torment, for she was by nature tender; and the reaction of her scathing words, no matter how justifiable, would be putting scars on her soul. The rest of his attire was nondescript. As she did so the preparation-room door opened behind her. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. There was a gentle rustling of skirts. " "By the name of The Tigress?" The doctor smiled, but shook his head. And there was no intimation whatever that the blinds would ever go up or the windows or doors be opened, or the chandeliers, that seemed to promise such a blaze of fire, unveiled and furnished and lit. This mitigated her remorse enormously. That poor child, trying to escape, and not knowing how. She remembered abruptly that she was really living upon his money. “But you do not know,” she whispered, “whether I am a married woman or not. “What a hideous repertoire! If you are in earnest about wanting to earn money, why on earth don’t you accept an engagement here?” “An engagement?” she queried. He regarded that perennial miracle of pinning with wrathful eyes.
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