’
‘That I do not doubt,’ Gerald muttered drily, but added in a tone of intense
satisfaction, ‘Then this husband is still in France? Excellent. If
she’s over, he probably knows all about it. But what did he know beyond these facts? Nothing, clearly. \" Lucy
said as they ascended the steps. "Perhaps you don't know that this Darrell
so contrived matters, that your child should be mistaken for his own; by which
means it had a narrow escape from a tight cravat, I can assure you. I was afraid of being talked
about. . How plainly he could see the patch of garden in the
summer sunshine and the white hollyhocks nodding above the picket fence!
*****
Ruth sat waiting for the half hour, subconsciously. There was no one at all in this room, but through the half-open door of
one of the small apartments that gave upon it she had a glimpse of two very
young girls sitting at a littered table and writing briskly. She went out into the hall, where she met the Jedsons in their
kimonos. "But it won't do. 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. "I'm glad to hear it, that's all," he added, taking out his snuff-box, his
never-failing resource in such emergencies. Perhaps an hour later he would begin again.
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