CHAPTER XXIII Next morning Ruth did not refer to the episode on the sands of the lagoon. Gerald guessed she was biting her tongue on an explosive retort as she eyed him. ” “You would marry a divorcée?” she asked. Adieu! my charmer. ” She roused herself from some dream at the word. ‘We?’ Gerald smiled. "What the devil makes you out so late? And what has happened to you, man, eh?—you seem in a queer plight. Meanwhile, she doesn’t realize she’s pregnant and he’s still after her, day after day. . That is where life takes advantage of youth. “Won’t you sit down,” she said, “and tell me what you want to say?” Her voice was flat and faint. The aspect of the place, so far as he could discern through the gloom, was strange to him; but chancing to raise his eyes above the level of the surrounding habitations, he beheld, relieved against the sombre sky, the tall steeple of Saint Giles's church, the precursor of the present structure, which was not erected till some fifteen years later. . “He can’t be more than thirty.
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