He seemed to know a great deal about life. She could no longer wait. She hid behind a mirage of piety, just as I do. Ruth obeyed, not willingly, but because there was something hypnotic in the authoritative tone. He touched her hand, soft and cool to his fingers—she turned at once to look at him. It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in Marylebone. He had already shown the covering envelope and its instructions to Ruth, and she had ignored or misunderstood the warning.
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