She was sore and overstrung, and it was intolerable to her that he should stand within three yards of her unsuspectingly, with an incalculably vast power over her happiness. Instead of English villas and cottages there were chalets and Italian-built houses shining white; there were lakes of emerald and sapphire and clustering castles, and such sweeps of hill and mountain, such shining uplands of snow, as she had never seen before. Other things came. ‘Not but what it was near that before Jarvis died. Enschede, to have starved his heart as well as Ruth's because, having laid a curse, he knew not how to turn aside from it! How easily he might have forgotten the unworthy mother in the love of the child! And this day to hear her voice lifted in a quality of anathema. The books slid from her arms and fluttered to the floor. "'The Man Who Could Not Go Home. She leaned forward, her chin in her palms, her elbows on her knees, and she set her gaze upon his face and kept it there in dreamy contemplation. How she needed him! Next moment, she had wrenched open the door, and was confronting her guard. Her first orders were to summon the rest of her servants to make immediate preparations for her departure for Lancashire. She got out of bed, her eyes still half-closed, and stood slack jawed. ‘Well, if the fellow Gosse is still at large, there’s no saying what he will be at next, is there? I see nothing for it but for you to see General Lord Charvill at once. Only the major won’t have it, and we’ve to bide by what the major says. ‘The man’s gone,’ her old nurse told her, when she had recovered a little. It was not a cambric curtain Ruth had drawn across that part of her life: it was of iron.
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