“You ought at once—you ought at once to have told her that. ’ She paused, holding her nurse’s eyes. “But that’s not all. Perhaps an hour passed before she laid aside the book. To have spoken lightly on such a subject a few hours ago would have seemed incredible. More than ever Sir John was glad that he had sat down. And I want him out of uniform. The burning topic of the Mendelian controversy was approached on one or two occasions, but avoided dexterously; and they talked chiefly of letters and art and the censorship of the English stage. ’ ‘Slaughtered with the rest, was she?’ Despite his hatred of the woman who had caused so much grief, the general found he could not rejoice as he wanted to. He was engaged in detesting Manning and himself in almost equal measure. Her slender throat was encircled by a black riband, with a small locket attached to it; and upon the top of her head rested a diminutive lace cap. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States.
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