Ruth, without suspecting it, had fallen upon a fundamental truth: that each and every book fitted into the scheme of human moods and intelligence. ‘What can I do, miss?’ ‘Nothing at all,’ cried Melusine. " Sir Rowland looked bewildered with surprise. I was stupid—stupid and impulsive beyond measure to burst upon you in this way. Against the sinister, the threatening, monstrous inhumanity of the limitless city, there was nothing now but this supreme, ugly fact of a pursuit— the pursuit of the undesired, persistent male. ’ Melusine gave it up. But it doesn’t alter the situation. She read voraciously, and presently, because of her aunt’s censorship, she took to smuggling any books she thought might be prohibited instead of bringing them home openly, and she went to the theatre whenever she could produce an acceptable friend to accompany her. “I had the pleasure of—er—meeting you more than once, I believe. Then suddenly with a rush came reality, came “growing up”; a hasty imperative appeal for seriousness, for supreme seriousness. She was sore and overstrung, and it was intolerable to her that he should stand within three yards of her unsuspectingly, with an incalculably vast power over her happiness. She climbed slowly towards it, keeping close to the hedge side, fragrant with wild roses, and holding her skirts high above the dew-laden grass. ‘I will do so. She will die if she knows I have a gun. There is a new life, different from the old life of dependence, possible.
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