The Scot understood that, gently and indirectly, Ruth was asking her husband a question, opening a door if he cared to enter. "Rowland," she rejoined, "you strive in vain to terrify me into compliance with your wishes. When the prisoner was brought into this room, he was again questioned; but, continuing contumacious, preparations were made for inflicting the torture. ‘Well, nothing,’ uttered her betrothed crossly, before Gerald could answer. Her relationship with John had made her the object of desire for scores of teenage boys who had dared not previously think of her in such a way. If ever the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances. The danger or difficulty of an exploit never appalled him. It is difficult to express these things. He will tell you confidentially that he simply hates the place. The clever hostess having let fall that several distinguished guests from France would be present, the world had flocked to her doors to catch, like the gossip-hungry vultures they were, a glimpse of them.
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