Time enough to do so when she has her affairs settled—if she can settle them. Spurling has induced him to sit down again. He was not able to recognize, as the doctor did, that she was only a natural woman. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. We'll get this chap on his feet if only to learn what the trouble is. The fellow is little better than a lunatic. ” She shivered. If she mentioned Ramage he might have a fit—anything might happen. ” “No, mine. I wonder what men would say if we threw the mask aside—if we really told them what WE thought of them, really showed them what WE were. Now he would take her away from the house before killing her, and no one would find her body at all. “The white unaggressive woman who corrects and nurses and serves, and is worshipped and betrayed—the martyr-queen of men, the white mother. But woe to those who disregard them! Of course, basically it is all wrong; and sometimes God must laugh at our ideas of rectitude. Their conversation degenerated again and again into a strain of self-congratulation that would have irked an eavesdropper.
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