‘If you had met her, you’d understand. The moment he was out in the hall, Ruth sat up hugging and rocking her body in delight. A young man turned to pay the cabman. At length, about three o'clock, as the first glimmer of dawn became visible through the barred casements of the round-house, the rattling of bolts and chains at the outer door told that some one was admitted. The unpleasant oily chill of fever overtook her body, and she watched in horror as Sebastian carried her to his bed on his shoulder like a sack of flour. Gay, by his strokes of pleasantry, whether in his writings or conversation, never lost a friend. She found herself anxious to read more of him, and the next Wednesday she went to the British Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essays and then through various scientific quarterlies for his research papers. For a long time she surveyed a row of towering holly-hocks, as though they offered an explanation. "The ceiling is breaking! the floor is opening! he is coming to me!" cried the unhappy woman. “They seem smaller, you know, even physically smaller,” she said. Over an old crazy bedstead was thrown a squalid, patchwork counterpane; and upon the counterpane lay a black hood and scarf, a pair of bodice of the cumbrous form in vogue at the beginning of the last century, and some other articles of female attire. ’ ‘Is she now? And what would you be wanting of her, may I ask?’ ‘Because she knows something that may make this fool understand that I am the mistress of—’ She broke off. “I do not suppose he will be home till late.
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