“Is Lady Lescelles in?” he asked the butler. She had traversed perhaps three bookshelves, passed across the door that must lead to the hall, turned the corner, and was just about to reach the fireplace when she abruptly became aware that something under her fingers had felt wrong. ’ The listening soldiers began to snigger behind their hands. “Why not?” “Because you are mine. Miss Moffatt, the history and moral instruction mistress, was particularly explicit upon this score, and they all agreed in indicating contempt and pity for girls whose minds ran on such matters, and who betrayed it in their conversation or dress or bearing. What could she do? Reluctantly, at a second curt command, she began to step across the uncarpeted floor, her eyes never leaving the threatening pistol. “When one wants a thing more than anything else in the world,” she said with outrageous frankness, “one naturally wishes one had it. Yet her aunt, with a ringed hand flitting to her lips and a puzzled, worried look in her eyes, deaf to all this riot of warmth and flitting desire, was playing Patience—playing Patience, as if Dionysius and her curate had died together. Even after this woman had gone, it seemed to Ruth that the room was kindlier than it had ever been.
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