I asked him why, and he hadn’t a reason. “Suppose, for example, I go to this dance?”
“You won’t. One chance in a thousand, and that would be
the girl. “Very well,” she would say, “then I must go. Ruth, having
decided a course for herself—that of renunciation—and having the strength to
keep it, met these advances in precisely the mood they were offered. ’
***
Gerald Alderley stepped out of a house he had been visiting in Hamilton Place
and the door closed behind him. Her pat answer to all inquiries was,
“I let my sister Shari make me over,” while she kept from
staring at her own reflection in the shiny shoes past her
bare knees. . I have made her an
honourable proposal of marriage, in compliance with the request of her lamented
parent, whose memory—"
"Dare to utter that falsehood in my hearing again, scoundrel," interrupted
Thames fiercely, "and I will put it out of your power to repeat the offence.
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