I'm glad he's come to see me. It was one of the most educational disillusionments in Ann Veronica’s career. It had been intensified and corrupted by time, as if to add insult to injury. Though within the last two days he had committed several heinous offences, and one of a darker dye than any with which the reader has been made acquainted, his breast was not yet so callous as to be wholly insensible to the stings of conscience. CHAPTER V At dinner the spinsters invited Ruth to sit at their table, an invitation she accepted gratefully. ‘Trespasses,’ supplied Gerald. “For instance?” She smiled. "Thanks. But it don't much matter—though he's a devilish shrewd fellow, and might have helped me out of a difficulty, had any occurred. ’ ‘How could he when he didn’t even handle it himself? Went off, I told you, and left it all to me. "The gentleman is a stranger to me, Poll," replied the woollen-draper, with increased embarrassment. “And if she can’t have the right one? “We’ve developed such a quality of preference!” She rubbed her knuckles into her forehead. He has told me sufficient of you—" "My dear," interposed Wood, "for goodness' sake—" "I will speak," screamed his wife, totally disregarding the interruption; "I will tell this worthless creature what I know about her,—and what I think of her. Such was the condition of his mind that the danger exhilarated rather than depressed him.
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