Lucy could see her striding down a Parisian catwalk quite easily. "I must see him to-night. "Oh, yes!—for always!" He took her hands and pressed them upon his thrumming heart; and in this attitude they remained for some time. So it was with Gosse, who had wanted to marry her. She told the porter to take it to the booking-office, and it was only after a disconcerting moment or so that she found she ought to have directed him to go to the cloak-room. Now he would take her away from the house before killing her, and no one would find her body at all. CHAPTER XXIII Next morning Ruth did not refer to the episode on the sands of the lagoon. Then a third secretarial opening occurred and renewed her hopes again: a position as amanuensis—with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined— to an infirm gentleman of means living at Twickenham, and engaged upon a great literary research to prove that the “Faery Queen” was really a treatise upon molecular chemistry written in a peculiar and picturesquely handled cipher. At the farther end of the Lodge, the floor was raised to the height of a couple of steps; whence the whole place, with the exception of the remotest corner of the angle before-mentioned, could be commanded at a single glance. The iron slipped from his face, leaving it blank with astonishment.
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