Melusine came in, picked up the lantern, and heard the library door bang open just as the panel clicked closed behind her. White would not approve of callers. ‘Comment? What do you say?’ Gerald looked down into her face, and found himself touched by the uncertainty he saw there. She was faint from hunger, her head spinning into dizziness, the blood madness readying for battle. In truth, she would quite like to have him rescue her. The customary gold band was missing; but a soft gold Chinese ring Spurlock had picked up in Singapore—the characters representing good luck and prosperity—was slipped over Ruth's third finger. She tried to compose her thoughts, to think of the last six months, to steep herself in the calm beauty of the surroundings. Manning, all this sort of thing is very well as sentiment, but does it correspond with the realities? Are women truly such angelic things and men so chivalrous? You men have, I know, meant to make us Queens and Goddesses, but in practice—well, look, for example, at the stream of girls one meets going to work of a morning, round-shouldered, cheap, and underfed! They aren’t queens, and no one is treating them as queens.
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