To be free of outward distraction, he shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly, with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face; the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony; the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms, now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire. Are you going to write a novel?” “Not I,” she answered gaily. At last some anodyne formed itself from these exercises, and, with eyelashes wet with such feeble tears as only three-o’clock-in-the-morning pathos can distil, she fell asleep. They were exquisite. Next instant he had her immobilised, her hands behind her back, her chest crushed to his, the white veil slipping once again. ’ Gerald laughed. ’ ‘Just what I thought, miss. “Manning,” she said, and contemplated a figure of inaggressive persistence. “She has improved her style,” someone declared. Ann Veronica was not aware of this literary side of her teacher; she had a little tinge of annoyance at Miss Garvice’s advantage. Perhaps you will now explain the alarm. “It is incredible. She was always the last person to exit after the crowds had stampeded, trailing slowly behind them like dust. Any one very badly moved choked down a few mouthfuls; the symptom of supreme distress was not to be able to touch a bit.
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