He has given orders that no one is to disturb him. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. She traveled through back yards and quiet side streets on her way home, careful to avoid the main thoroughfares, fraught as they were with people in cars who would recognize her person or notice her dress. “How did you hear that?” Lucy’s brows knitted. He waited for an instant, wasting an encouraging smile in the imperfect light, and then shut the doors of the van, leaving the women in darkness. You forget all the mass of training and tradition and instinct that go to make him a tolerable master. To take Spring and Love out of her life, as if there were no human instincts to tell Ruth what was being denied her! And what must have been the man's thought as he came upon Ruth wearing a gown of her mother's? —a fair picture of the mother in the primrose days? Not a flicker of an eyelash; steel and granite outwardly. " "As like as life, Sir," observed Austin, peeping over Thornhill's shoulder at the portrait. “Oh, Veronica!” she said, “to leave your home!” She had been weeping. ” 174 < 21 > THANKSGIVING She padded softly up the old stairs, exhausted and elated.
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