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. If I had been your companion only, and not your master, I might very well have been content to accept you for what you seem. His curiosity put itself into a question. You are too credulous. I would have liked to know. He was well mounted, as was his companion; and had pistols in his holsters, and a hanger at his girdle. I can see that you were somebody, in another day. ‘That is what she wants, is it?’ ‘Do you blame her?’ he said stiffly. I keep on thinking of little details and aspects of your voice, your eyes, the way you walk, the way your hair goes back from the side of your forehead. ‘If Major Alderley should happen to call, you may admit him also. She had been quite convinced that an engagement with him and at last a marriage had exactly that quality of compromise which distinguishes the ways of the wise. From the first there had always been between her and her listeners that electrical sympathy which only a certain order of genius seems able to create. Her back stiffened. Leonardo had told her it would happen, and warned her to make use of it.
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