Still he looked hale and hearty, and the country life he led had imparted a ruddier glow to his cheek. Melusine—the real Melusine—evidently did not see him immediately, for her attention was on her descent from the high vehicle. The fibre of his soul had to be tested, queerly, to make him worthy of you. Henceforth Ruth would closely observe her fellow women and note the hang of their skirts. And yet, she would be easy prey in her present state of mind to any plausible, attractive scoundrel. Things happen out this way. For a time they walked in silence. The resemblance was amazing! And some man—he was good-looking—was in the background. She was aware of the body of the court, of clerks seated at a black table littered with papers, of policemen standing about stiffly with expressions of conscious integrity, and a murmuring background of the heads and shoulders of spectators close behind her. ” The truth prevailed. Why? While the front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?” His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some secret or forbidden or impossible lover. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray.
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