“Thought so. . 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. It was, Ann Veronica felt, as a sip or so of that remarkable blend warmed her blood, just the sort of thing that her aunt would not approve, to be lunching thus, tete-a-tete with a man; and yet at the same time it was a perfectly innocent as well as agreeable proceeding. It was his particular hobby, and the leisure he had to apply to it had given him a remarkable appraising eye. There are sing-song girls in Hong-Kong and Shanghai who are famous and wealthy. He hung round those broad waters from noon until three and realized that he had embarked upon a wild-goose chase. ” “I will see that he gets it immediately on his return,” the lady promised. White leaned forward in her chair with an anxious smile designed to throw oil upon the troubled waters.
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