It made her laugh, which in turn made him laugh. She found next morning, when she came to this advertisement answering, that it was more difficult than she had supposed. Presently he became filled with astonishment over the singular fact that Ruth was eluding him in fancy as well as in reality. “But I am judge of that,” said Manning. Every now and then something familiar in her tone, the poise of her head, the play of her eyes startled him. A mate? A brother-lover to tromp about the world with? “I cannot. ” Brendon leaned over confidentially. The spinster saw herself growing warm again in the morning sunshine of youth —a flaring ember before the hearth grew cold. He was just getting cross about your being late for dinner—you know his way—when it came. Then she dropped the curtain and stepped back into the room. "Are you returning to Hong-Kong to-morrow by the day boat?" For a moment Ruth was astonished at the sound of the spinster's voice. Then a third secretarial opening occurred and renewed her hopes again: a position as amanuensis—with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined— to an infirm gentleman of means living at Twickenham, and engaged upon a great literary research to prove that the “Faery Queen” was really a treatise upon molecular chemistry written in a peculiar and picturesquely handled cipher. Several people were passed out on the sectional sofa, and muffled noises emanated from other rooms indicating that the party’s embers were still smoldering, but John was nowhere to be seen. The noise of a bolt came to Alderley’s ears. In and out of consciousness she sailed, hearing voices from memory that she could not distinguish from reality.
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