“You silly wimmin,” he said over and over again throughout the hearing, plucking at his blotting-pad with busy hands. Just as the attendants were preparing to lower the corpse into the earth, Jack fell on his knees beside the coffin, uttering the wildest exclamations of grief, reproaching himself with the murder of his mother, and invoking the vengeance of Heaven on his own head. “I think as I feel in a good humour it must be the latter. And yet, often when alone, he wondered: had McClintock been wrong, or had she ceased to care in that way? The possibility that she no longer cared should have filled him with unalloyed happiness, whereas it depressed him, cut the natural vanity of youth into shreds and tatters. “For my part I can see no difference in any of these French girls who come over here with their demure manner and atrocious songs. ‘Pen and paper, do you have them?’ ‘Danged if I have,’ came the truculent response. Melusine got to her feet and, tucking her shoulder under his arm on the uninjured side, put her arm about him to hold his waist, and thus contrived to take most of his weight. Once, both Ruth and Spurlock accompanied McClintock far south, to an island of blacks; and Spurlock had his first experience with the coconut dance and the booming of wooden tom-toms. And, as he was about to put himself into a posture of defence, his mother clasped him in her arms. He resolved to judge for himself.
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