“Ssh!” said her mother, and then added, “A little natural feeling, dear. If ever
the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then
understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances. “You didn’t expect that I should kiss you?”
“How was I to know that a man would—would think it was possible—when
there was nothing—no love?”
“How did I know there wasn’t love?”
That silenced her for a moment. Miss Stanley, it was manifest, had given him Ann Veronica’s address. There are
sing-song girls in Hong-Kong and Shanghai who are famous and wealthy. He was a
business man, pure and simple, his eyes were fastened always upon the practical
side of life. No one
could take the place for anything but what it was, and even Gosse hesitated in
the doorway. It appeared he had already
ordered dinner and wine, and the whiskered waiter waved in his subordinate
with the soup forthwith.
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