To be sure, Ruth had dimly been aware of this; but now for the first time she was made painfully conscious of it. Everything was blurred. She had eaten little or no tea, and her mid-day meal had been worse than nothing. “And to think that it’s not a full year ago since I was a black-hearted rebel school-girl, distressed, puzzled, perplexed, not understanding that this great force of love was bursting its way through me! All those nameless discontents—they were no more than love’s birth-pangs. A stomacher, fastened by imitationdiamond buckles, girded that part of her person, which should have been a waist; a coral necklace encircled her throat, and a few black patches, or mouches, as they were termed, served as a foil to the bloom of her cheek and chin. Forgive me. Outside stood a stocky, combat boot-clad girl of seventeen with a teased mass of spiky bottle-black hair. The evenings were beginning to draw out, and it would not be dark for an hour. For was not Gerald a gentleman? An Englishman, whose services any female—excluding her own self so idiote— would be very happy to have. "But I dread the effect your departure may have upon your poor mother. 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. My eyes are open to you. ” He said to her. “I must repeat,” Sir John said, “that I much regret disturbing you at such an unseemly hour.
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