It—it is nothing,’ she said, although with a tremor in her voice. She found it
rather funny that he always wore the shirt fastidiously
tucked in and never wore the ensemble without a stiff
brown leather belt. Wood had the
advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a
period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the
same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the
shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special
recommendation in female eyes. Turning off again
on the left, down Seacoal Lane, they arrived at the mouth of a dark, narrow alley,
into which they plunged; and, at the farther extremity found a small yard,
overlooked by the blank walls of a large gloomy habitation. ”
She marked an hotel that seemed neither opulent nor odd in a little side street
opening on the Embankment, made up her mind with an effort, and, returning by
Hungerford Bridge to Waterloo, took a cab to this chosen refuge with her two
pieces of luggage. He did not want Ruth to see his own stricken
countenance; nor did he care to see hers, ravaged by tears. She was civil, but
she was obviously impatient to know his errand. Winifred's reception was kind, but more distant, and after the
slight ceremonial she resumed her occupation. You yourself, I am sure, recognize how
impossible you have made it for me now to do anything of the sort. Your servant, Mr. He had already
shown the covering envelope and its instructions to Ruth, and she had ignored or
misunderstood the warning.
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