It had seemed to her that life might be very good indeed with his kindliness and sacrifice about her. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?” She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life. ’ ‘What, for not wanting to marry you?’ ‘Imbecile. The rest were hieroglyphic characters, executed in red chalk and charcoal. “Perhaps for me,” she added, with a sudden wistful look out of the bare high window, “a night of beginnings. She backed away from him. Like most officers, he’d had it especially made, for a man who loved danger had need of a precision instrument of defence. Sometimes it seemed to him that he was an impostor: that Ruth believed him to be one Howard Spurlock, when he was only masquerading as Spurlock. . ’ ‘Yes, that is what he said,’ agreed Melusine, pleased to find him of so ready an understanding. '" As these words were delivered by the carpenter with stern emphasis, a female servant entered the room, and stated that a gentleman was at the door, who wished to speak with Captain Darell on business of urgent importance.
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