When she came in after dinner that night, Ruth was no longer an interesting phenomenon, something figuratively to tear apart and investigate: she was talismanic. Taber is very ill. The letter began: “MY DEAREST GIRL,—I cannot let you do this foolish thing—” She crumpled notes and letter together in her hand, and then with a passionate gesture flung them into the fire. She tried to compose her thoughts, to think of the last six months, to steep herself in the calm beauty of the surroundings. “Really, I do not know why I should have doubted it. A shout was heard at a little distance, and, the next moment, a person rushed with breathless haste to the stair-head. And what on earth do you want to darken your eyebrows and use so much make-up for at your age? You’re exactly twenty-three, and you’re got up as much as a woman of forty-five. To recreate the era, I deliberately tried to avoid creating a thinly disguised bodice ripper where an “empowered” woman mouthed off to prospective suitors in jerkins and tights, in other words, a typical romance novel. “The bravest of us have joints in our armour. She leaned forward in her chair, as if petrified in fear by the scary story. "Take my life, if you're so disposed.
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