For all that she was of exceptional intellectual enterprise, she had never yet considered these things with unaverted eyes. Sir John heard gossip about us—about Anna the recluse, a paragon of virtue, and Annabel alias ‘Alcide’ a dancer at the cafés chantants, and concerning whom there were many stories which were false, and a few—which were true. “So, Rhea must have known you for what you are. I haven’t, anyhow. It’s a sort of guarantee of confidence. Reconnoitring them through a small grated loophole, he refused to open the door till they had explained their business. He had diverged only a little from the truth when he said that his chief interest in life was women. But as the mystery which surrounded Ruth fell away that which enveloped her father thickened. But I trusted to that ring of yours. He gave glimpses of possibilities. Much to her annoyance, therefore, Winifred was left alone with the woollendraper, who following up a maxim of his own, "that nothing was gained by too much bashfulness," determined to profit by the opportunity.
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