“I am bored,” she said abruptly. Sheppard, with a faint smile and a doubtful shake of the head, as Wood drew her to a seat beside him, "for I've had my full share of misery. We sha’n’t hang up on any misunderstanding. What a pity! For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet instead of four—broken, without resilience. Running his hand hastily over it, he was startled to find it one complicated mass of bolts and bars. He claimed me for his wife, and showed to every one a marriage certificate. Standing before a mirror set on a dresser between the windows, two hands frozen in the act of adjusting a wide-brimmed hat on her head, stood a lady in a dark riding habit, her startled features turned towards the door. Her fingers opened and the weapon fell from her nerveless grasp. Long before religion and Society heard of Doubt, girls were all for midnight coaches and Gretna Green. She had known that Remenham House would be deserted, for Martha—released, as she had carefully explained to her charge, by her vows to God from servitude and obedience to Nicholas Charvill, a mere mortal—had begun a correspondence with a friend of her youth, Mrs Joan Ibstock, née Pottiswick.
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