I am sure he would go with
you. He was in trouble and she could not help him;
that was the ache in her heart. “What
have I been all this time?” she asked herself, and answered, “Just stark egotism,
crude assertion of Ann Veronica, without a modest rag of religion or discipline
or respect for authority to cover me!”
It seemed to her as though she had at last found the touchstone of conduct. “Thank God,” he exclaimed. Ann
Veronica found her attention wandering a little as he told her that he was not
ashamed to feel almost slavish in the presence of really beautiful people, and
then they came to the Michaelmas daisies. Far
away there was the one woman for this boy of mine—some human being who
would understand the dear fool better than all the rest of the world. Pramlay, a sister of the Morningside Park doctor,
and a very active and useful member of the Committee of the Impoverished
Gentlewomen’s Aid Society. ”
She stopped with an air of interrogation. The agony on the sands now
ceased to puzzle her. At that, the girl jumped up. An audible crack sounded in the kitchen and
Mark slumped backwards, unconscious. But for Ruth, he, Howard
Spurlock, might have ended upon the beach, inescapably damned. Glancing at each other, they rose from their seats and
ventured to address the captain. ’
‘So that you may interest yourself in my affairs even more?’
‘Then I will go with you,’ he offered. But they will also
find you.
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