" CHAPTER XX To Spurlock it seemed as if a great iron door had swung in behind him, shutting out the old world. This man and he were alike, and about the same age. "Is this her work?" "It is," answered Thames. That is where I first knew him. ’ Gerald capitulated. Melusine came back to the present to discover that tears were rolling down her cheeks. He conveyed not only his sense of the extreme want of correctitude in their unsanctioned meetings, but also that, so far as he was concerned, this irregularity mattered not at all, that he had flung—and kept on flinging—such considerations to the wind. She had not chosen her life, but she was foggy on whether or not it was right to deny others the right to join her in her suffering. She came to befriend the female mistresses, some who were even so audacious as to bring their children into the house. For this three weeks had been the hardest of her life. She could run away from him, if she wished, as she had run away from her father; she could carry out the original adventure. She wondered abjectly whether he intended to rape her before she was dead. I didn’t! I didn’t! After all—” For a time her mind ran on daintiness and its defensive restraints as though it was the one desirable thing. “I wonder,” he said, “if women do know things by instinct? I have my doubts about feminine instinct. Ruth obeyed, not willingly, but because there was something hypnotic in the authoritative tone.
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