It was not due to shyness: it was the inherent instinct of the Woman, a protective fear that she must retain some elements of mystery in order to hold the interest of the male. ’ ‘I’m hanged if I can make out either of you,’ complained Hilary. Her father had smiles ready for her, he seemed to be truly happy with her for the first time since her infancy. ‘You would know more of me?’ ‘I would know everything about you,’ Gerald told her, his tone at once provocative and inviting. Or he would find something—a wave in her hair, a little line in the contour of her brow or neck, that made an exquisite discovery. He waved to her. Not a bad man as men go, but he would sell whisky and gin. "A fall against Newgate is accounted a sign of death by the halter," replied Wild, with ill-disguised malignity. She even thought that perhaps she might come to love him, in spite of that faint indefinable flavor of absurdity that pervaded his courtly bearing. Anna raised her eyes. When she came in after dinner that night, Ruth was no longer an interesting phenomenon, something figuratively to tear apart and investigate: she was talismanic.
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