‘You are not at all stupid. Wood was so much exhausted that he was
obliged to retire to his own room, where he continued for some hours
overpowered by grief. Why had Ruth married him? A penniless outcast, for she must
have known he was that. She was dressed as a white woman should be; and
that for the present satisfied her instincts. All at once her heart began to
patter queerly. The big gray spaces of London, the shop-lit, greasy, shining streets, had
become very remote; the biological laboratory with its work and emotions, the
meetings and discussions, the rides in hansoms with Ramage, were like things in
a book read and closed. For it was but
logical that she would seek a divorce on the ground that she had unknowingly
married a fugitive from justice. . She wanted to
take him in her arms and hush him, but she sat perfectly still. ‘Too late by the time I realised to what a dunderhead I’d
pledged my friendship. You care for me a little, I know. Is it so, Annabel?”
“I did not know,” she faltered, “anything about you. It appears that he was an
unsuccessful admirer of the lady in question, and he admits that, under the
influence of drink, he broke into her rooms, and there made a determined
attempt at suicide.
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