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“You can’t imagine,” he said, “what a beastly thing a furtive love affair can be. “I mean to go to that dance! I meant to reason with you, but you won’t reason. ” “I wonder,” he said, a trifle irrelevantly, “what the future has in store for you. ‘Caught her sneaking after that Valade fellow. Probably he taught me what a joke was merely to irritate my father; for suddenly Father stopped my going to the store for things and sent our old Kanaka cook instead. That was odd: when young people were joyous, they had to express it physically. It was a moment or two before Gerald realised that he could feel the fluttering of her pulse beneath the light touch he had on her wrist, and that her fingers were trembling in his. "What's that?—Jack's voice!" "It is," replied her son. He saw three people: a young man at the piano, an elderly man smoking in a corner, and a young woman reclining in a chair, her eyes closed. "You shall see him to-morrow. I must go to-night, or I shall never behold him again. It was just as easy to pretend she was watching one when she was actually watching the other. And I've made up my mind that a husband ought to believe only half that he hears, and nothing that he sees. To be free of outward distraction, he shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly, with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face; the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony; the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms, now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire.
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