” When the next holidays came Ann Veronica’s mother was ill, and Gwen was in the sick-room when Ann Veronica returned home. Wood dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion, essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he had well-nigh silenced him most effectually. I also have eyes, and I have seen the picture. Here was Ruth Enschede—sick of love! Love—something the world would always keep hidden from her, at least human love. It was not a difficult affair. During all their long comradeship he had never so much as ventured to hold her fingers. This was a much more serious task than he anticipated. ‘Do you swear it? There’s no knowing if one can believe you. Go on with your studies at the Imperial College, for example, get a degree, and make yourself good value. For his own part he could not sufficiently admire the pluck of this lady, who, notwithstanding all that she had been through, had chosen to appear this evening rather than break her engagement.
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