All her questions would have as a background the idea of future defence. Ann Veronica glanced at the mirror to discover a flushed and dishevelled disorder. ’ ‘Will you go back there?’ asked Gerald. Here was the same Ruth who had left him a few minutes since: the same outwardly; and yet…! On the ninth day Spurlock was up and about; that is, he was strong enough to walk alone, from the companion to his chair, to lean upon the rail when the chair grew irksome, to join Ruth and his employer at lunch and dinner: strong enough to argue about books, music, paintings. He trembled violently. She finished the olive and looked up. As for this infatuation—it’s like some obsession, some magic thing laid upon you. In spite of all this, he grew daily better and stronger, and his spirits revived. While you live in my house you must follow my ideas. Moving swiftly to the end of the corridor, he pushed open a door at random and entered a large room, which looked to have been a saloon, judging from the faded gilt and crimson wall-paper, a mirror above the fireplace which was surrounded by an ornate gilded frame, now sadly tarnished, and a worn Chippendale sofa with striped upholstery and tasselled cushions. “The first person you love, Ann Veronica, is yourself—get hold of that! The soul you have to save is Ann Veronica’s soul. And I have made such arrangements that at my decease tardy justice will be done my injured nephew. It appears that he was an unsuccessful admirer of the lady in question, and he admits that, under the influence of drink, he broke into her rooms, and there made a determined attempt at suicide. There was a gentle rustling of skirts.
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