”
“I can’t be portentous, dear, when you’re about. CHAPTER XXIII
Next morning Ruth did not refer to the episode on the sands of the lagoon. "
"Let this speak for me," said Sheppard, tossing a heavy bag of money towards
him. "
"My courage gave out. She had no idea what she should do. She felt that she had
passed a difficult corner, and that now she could go on talking with him again,
just as she had been used to do before she understood what was the matter with
her. ‘Dunderhead. Ann Veronica woke rather later than usual, and lay awake for some
minutes before she remembered a certain resolution she had taken in the small
hours. I overheard them planning your
assassination. . Got detained in the City,
and——”
Then he met the fixed, breathless gaze of those wonderful eyes from the other
side of the table, and he, too, broke off in the middle of his sentence.
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