The taste of his sweat was intoxicating, like sweet brandy, like blood. “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be lovers in the ordinary sense. You were delicious in concert, by the way. Anyhow, they didn’t run about so much. The necessity which had previously existed of leaving the ghastly evidence of the murderous deed undisturbed,—the presence of the mangled corpse,—the bustle of the inquest, at which her attendance was required,—all these circumstances produced a harrowing effect upon the young girl's imagination. " "Poh! poh!" rejoined Ireton; "it was mere idle boasting. And the situation it makes!—the situation!” Thus Manning, egotistical, inconsecutive, unreal. Presently he became filled with astonishment over the singular fact that Ruth was eluding him in fancy as well as in reality. For Manning it would be a more temperate love altogether.
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