" He offered cigars, and Ruth got up. \"Let's not get ahead of ourselves, Shari. Somebody to whom she would be necessary, who for days would have to depend upon her for the needs of life. Lights gleamed from the lower rooms, and, on a nearer approach to the building, the sound of revelry might be heard from within. Small wonder she had learned to be self-reliant. It was not a hopeful looking group. And she is very young, younger than her years. But you have, haven’t you?’ He tutted again. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. And now she comprehended that the man (she had never known him by any name) knew she had surprised the look and had not resented it. Wood the carpenter. He had heard this talk before. Jack in all probability, would have escaped, if Langley, who was left in the Lodge, had not been alarmed at the noise and rushed thither. "Added to which, she is neither so young as she was, nor, is her temper by any means improved—hem!" "Say no more on the subject, Sir," observed the stranger, gravely; "but let us turn to a more agreeable one—her daughter.
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