Winny, show the person into this room. “But, how,” he said, sitting up astonished beyond measure, “not go on?”
“I have been thinking while you have been talking. "A neighbour offered me a drive
to Paddington; and, as I haven't heard of my son for some time, I couldn't resist
the temptation of stepping on to inquire after him, and to thank you for your
great goodness to us both, I've brought a little garden-stuff and a few new-laid
eggs for you, Ma'am," she added turning to Mrs. “I——”
The door opened, and the doctor entered softly. Then she glanced at the cards again, over which her aunt’s
many-ringed hand played, and then at the rather weak, rather plump face that
surveyed its operations. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it.
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