Ruth did not reply, but stared past the doctor, her eyes misty. “Everybody seems to have it now. Each became frightfully aware of the other as a plastic energetic body, of the strong muscles of neck against cheek, of hands gripping shoulder-blade and waist. The raising of twenty-five pounds was a task altogether beyond her powers. ‘Difficult, I grant you. It's too hard. She was a large, resilient girl, with a foolish smile, a still more foolish expression of earnestness, and a throaty contralto voice. That was the only sound he heard. Even though you cursed your own existence, I had not been so joyous in a thousand years! Finally, he took the family and remaining servants away to the Manor. If Winifred remained silent, her looks would have disarmed a person of less assurance than the woollen-draper. “You must remember,” she said, “that you yourself are responsible for your altered looks. “You see,” he said, “from my point of view you’re grown up— you’re as old as all the goddesses and the contemporary of any man alive. She went down, flushed and light-hearted, to the Widgetts’ after lunch to make some final arrangements and then, as soon as her aunt had retired to lie down for her usual digestive hour, took the risk of the servants having the enterprise to report her proceedings and carried her bag and hold-all to the garden gate, whence Teddy, in a state of ecstatic service, bore them to the railway station. She ignored it until it repeated itself. She was only a few yards from the door, but lacked the courage to rise and fly.
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