“There is something which I must say to you. Canton at night is as much China as the border town of Lan-Chow-fu. The latter haughtily returned his salutation, and flung himself, as if exhausted, into a chair. ‘I rather suspect,’ added Prudence, ‘that Major Alderley’s motives were somewhat different. About her, as she had gone day by day to and from the Tredgold College, she had seen and not seen many an incidental aspect of those sides of life about which girls are expected to know nothing, aspects that were extraordinarily relevant to her own position and outlook on the world, and yet by convention ineffably remote. I expect you had been snubbing him terribly. He had been dreaming of Ruth—an old recurrency of that dream he had had in Canton, of Ruth leading him to the top of the mountain. " "Then you are taking me on?" Spurlock's eyes grew soft like those of a dog that, expecting the whip, saw only the kindly hand. And imprinting a kiss upon his mother's cold lips, he left the room. "Thinking it likely you might desire to have this information, I prepared accordingly. He kissed her once on the lips with a passion of which, during all their days of married life, he had given no sign. " "Go on, tell me," he urged, enchanted. She was to fall back amongst the ruck, a young woman of talent, content perhaps to earn a scanty living by painting Christmas cards, or teaching at a kindergarten. Sorry to be so nosy.
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