For an instant, Melusine watched him go. ‘Ha!’ uttered Captain Roding triumphantly. Meantime, as the doctor was splitting his breakfast orange, he heard a commotion in his office, two rooms removed: volleys of pidgin English, one voice in protest, the other dominant. “You know,” he went on, “this doesn’t seem to me to end anything. His lovely black eyes softened until they became like languid as the night sky. She had suddenly become as the jewels of the Madonna, as the idol's eye, infinitely beyond his reach, sacred. Some automaton within her produced in a quite unfamiliar voice the remark, “They’re playing football. ’ To her surprise, Captain Roding backtracked. It dropped sideways and fell with a bang to the table. Never any doubt of it. Here was the same Ruth who had left him a few minutes since: the same outwardly; and yet…! On the ninth day Spurlock was up and about; that is, he was strong enough to walk alone, from the companion to his chair, to lean upon the rail when the chair grew irksome, to join Ruth and his employer at lunch and dinner: strong enough to argue about books, music, paintings. Manning, all this sort of thing is very well as sentiment, but does it correspond with the realities? Are women truly such angelic things and men so chivalrous? You men have, I know, meant to make us Queens and Goddesses, but in practice—well, look, for example, at the stream of girls one meets going to work of a morning, round-shouldered, cheap, and underfed! They aren’t queens, and no one is treating them as queens.
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