Who could say that the girl's father had not once been a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. "Often. I will be up with my wife and daughter after lunch. If he awoke and caught you at it, there might be a set-back. She tried gentle words with him, beguiling perfumes, even slipped aphrodisiac tisanes into his soup. Only her ungloved fingers, and the arms in their long tight sleeves as she held the heavy gun aloft, bore any sign of stiffness. “Are you in the Service?” She asked him. The conceit of Howard Spurlock in imagining he knew what mental suffering was! But Enschede was right: Ruth must never know. Why? While the front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?” His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some secret or forbidden or impossible lover. “I—I am sorry—I didn’t explain. Smith, placing his hand on his breast. Wait!" He released himself from his aunt's embrace, ran to the trunk and fetched the old coat.
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