"Your father—poor imbecile!—believes we ran away together. It was evident the lady’s servant knew his mistress, for he had come equipped with a tray upon which reposed a decanter and two glasses. "Have you been more successful, Sir?" ventured Ireton. To be free of outward distraction, he shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly, with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face; the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony; the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms, now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire. Her eyes were fixed upon the ground, the pink colour coming and going in her cheeks was very delicate and girlish. He was halfway across the ballroom, where the dancing had ceased for the musicians to take a well-earned rest, when Roding pounced on him. “Look here,” he cried out of a silence, with a sudden flash of understanding, “did you mean to throw me over when you came out with me this afternoon?” Ann Veronica hesitated, and with a startled mind realized the truth. ” “Was he divorced, do you mean?” “No, but he got himself mixed up in a divorce case. “There are some people,” he said at last, “who seem fated to carry on their shoulders the burdens of other people. He only laughed his defiance. Was he really awake? The arrival and departure of this strange father lacked the essential human touch to make it real. And the fences are down for good.
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