He was manifestly exerting his mind for her, and she found herself fully disposed to justify his interest. So, step by step, and hurt by hurt, Ruth was learning that John Smith was John Smith and nobody else. Immediately beneath her lay Willesden,—the most charming and secluded village in the neighbourhood of the metropolis—with its scattered farm-houses, its noble granges, and its old grey church-tower just peeping above a grove of rook-haunted trees. She would never forget the agony of that first meal in the great dining room. “Don’t forget to take off your shoes. There followed a silence which endured several minutes; or, rather a tableau. “You are very kind to think of it,” she said, “but—don’t you think perhaps—that I had better not?” He smiled indulgently. It seemed to her that it was her duty to get up and clamor to go home to her room, to protest against his advances as an insult. ” “The school orchestra?” “Nope. And sometimes he overflowed with a peculiarly malignant wit that played, with devastating effect, upon any topics that had the courage to face it. ‘What are the chances, do you think, of that thing being already cocked?’ ‘Probably not even loaded,’ suggested Hilary hopefully. ” “Certainly! The thing which appeals to our sense of humour is the fact that you and la petite Pellissier were dining together.
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