"I declare I'm all in a cold sweat. Sheppard. Or had she, like himself, been held up until the fellow returned to town? He waited, his ready humour anticipating her likely reaction. . She even thought that perhaps she might come to love him, in spite of that faint indefinable flavor of absurdity that pervaded his courtly bearing. Once in the room, the door locked, the sense of loneliness had dropped away from her as the mists used to drop away from the mountain in the morning. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. "You read it, Ruth. She took the tray with both hands, gulped, and gave way to tears. She had intended to be quietly dignified, but he was in a smouldering rage from the beginning, and began by assuming, which alone was more than flesh and blood could stand, that the insurrection was over and that she was coming home submissively. He had assumed that her leaving home was the point at issue, that everything turned on that, and that the sole alternative was obedience, and she had fallen in with that assumption until rebellion seemed a sacred principle. “Well, I do. Lucy looked about confusedly. "Enough's as good as a feast. Tell him about the island, the coconut dance, the wooden tom-toms; read to him.
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