‘Too late by the time I realised to what a dunderhead I’d pledged my friendship. He drew a little breath and stepped back. Ann Veronica surveyed his sloping back for a moment, and then drew her microscope toward her. I’m glad you’re back for all sorts of reasons. But he was at last persuaded that I mean you no harm, and that I might—just possibly, since I am both a gentleman and a major of militia—be able to be of more assistance to you than he himself. You have converted me to—Lester Ward! You are my dear friend, you are a slip of a girl, but there are moments when my head has been on your breast, when your heart has been beating close to my ears, when I have known you for the goddess, when I have wished myself your slave, when I have wished that you could kill me for the joy of being killed by you. Her first impulse was to fly to the window; and she was about to pass through it, at the risk of sharing the fate of the unfortunate lady, when her arm was grasped by some one in the act of ascending the ladder from without. “Odd!” he remarked, rather surprisingly, after a little interval. "And I want to thank you, too," supplemented Ruth.
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