But after all, what did it matter whether she had secrets or not? To him she was not a woman but a symbol; and one did not investigate the antecedents of symbols. . ’ Lucy giggled. Her tone should have warned him, but he was too much in earnest to regard it. ‘But you will not be in a convent. The London backgrounds, in Bloomsbury and Marylebone, against which these people went to and fro, took on, by reason of their gray facades, their implacably respectable windows and window-blinds, their reiterated unmeaning iron railings, a stronger and stronger suggestion of the flavor of her father at his most obdurate phase, and of all that she felt herself fighting against. I learned of your betrothal, gleaned all the information I could simply by eavesdropping. CHAPTER XXIII Next morning Ruth did not refer to the episode on the sands of the lagoon. The steps, even the pavements, were invaded by little knots of loungers driven outside by the unusual heat of the evening, most of them in evening dress, or what passed for evening dress in Montague Street. She packed her backpack with a change of clothes, some rags, and her old length of piano wire. In nearly every speech she heard was the same implication of great and necessary changes in the world—changes to be won by effort and sacrifice indeed, but surely to be won. We remember it.
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