Ruth had not expected to be kissed; so the omission passed unnoted. It was a gracious gesture, she thought, as he trudged to the Beck’s humble doorstep in his stiff blue polyester uniform. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. Well, I was all for dragging in Bow Street there and then, and getting the pair of those fraudsters thrown in gaol. The manager had sketched the girl's character, or rather had interpreted it, from the incidents which had happened since dinner. She tiptoed into the entryway where some decorator had placed a live orchid upon a glassy ebony table. It was a purse. “And yet I wonder whether the world ever held such another enigma in her sex. “Perhaps for me,” she added, with a sudden wistful look out of the bare high window, “a night of beginnings. Let me go, Sir. All the furniture was moved, all the meals were disarranged, and everybody, Ann Veronica included, appeared in new, bright costumes. Perhaps in the beginning the women made fools of themselves over him. I’m anxious, joyfully anxious, like a man when he has found a treasure. ” He commanded. The two girls put on shoes and started walking towards the north side of town.
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