Why? While the front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?” His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some secret or forbidden or impossible lover. ‘More, I think,’ put in Madame, soulfully regarding the major, ‘because I have English, a little. The Mohocks. After all, the Wastrel was in luck: he was alone. . ” Nothing unusual was discovered in any other part of the flat. She trembled; but she did not know why. "What is your name?" "Ruth. ” He dared, his nostrils flaring. Bravo!—the best cly-faker of 'em all couldn't have done it better. It was the beginning and the end of the transaction. The drawers at the moment were too busy to attend to her, and she would have seized the opportunity of examining, unperceived, the assemblage within, through a little curtained window that overlooked the adjoining chamber, if an impediment had not existed in the shape of Baptist Kettleby, whose portly person entirely obscured the view. The aspect of the place, so far as he could discern through the gloom, was strange to him; but chancing to raise his eyes above the level of the surrounding habitations, he beheld, relieved against the sombre sky, the tall steeple of Saint Giles's church, the precursor of the present structure, which was not erected till some fifteen years later.
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