Gerald at once rid himself of his own glass and leapt to her assistance. Teddy handed her into the second-class compartment her season-ticket warranted, and declared she was “simply splendid. Nothing stronger than water has passed my lips for years. He had quite enough to see to and worry about in the City without their doing things. ” Chapter III ANNA? OR ANNABEL? Sir John was wholly unable to understand the laugh and semi-ironical cheer which greeted his entrance to the smoking-room of the English Club on the following evening. For a time he heard no more, and stared with stony eyes at a Book-War proclamation in leaded type that filled half a column of the Times that day. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works 1. ‘Leave it, imbecile. She is English! I am sure of that. To be free of outward distraction, he shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly, with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face; the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony; the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms, now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire. “Dare!” she said.
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