CHAPTER XXIII Next morning Ruth did not refer to the episode on the sands of the lagoon. ’ Miss Froxfield regarded him in some interest. Predictably, Charvill turned on him. ‘I suppose this is the cavalier you had with you when you—er—attended the ball the other night?’ ‘Jacques is very useful to me,’ Melusine confirmed, bestowing that same radiant smile on the young man, whose features were instantly suffused with scarlet. “Here,” he said, “is this Blau See, and here we rest until to-morrow. She forgot her vital hatred of the South Seas; she forgot that McClintock's would not differ a jot from the old island she had for ever left behind her; she forgot all the doctor's lessons and warnings. You have been seen loitering with suspicious intent in several places—Paddington, for instance—and I have no doubt at all that you were party to a break-in last week at Remenham House in Kent. This is not honourable. . It is the worst of talk under such social circumstances that it is always getting cut off so soon as it is beginning; and I went home that afternoon feeling I had said nothing—literally nothing—of the things I had meant to say to you and that were coursing through my head. Guiding this man of hers over the troubled sea of life had engraved these lines.
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