"What?—help take care of him? Why, you can't do that, Miss
Enschede!" was the protest. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. He would
get her to come to tea with him, usually in a pleasant tea-room over a fruit-shop
in Tottenham Court Road, and he would discuss his own point of view and hint
at a thousand devotions were she but to command him. ‘You imbecile. A moment more and he would have been crushed beneath the ponderous
board, when a slight but strong arm arrested its descent. His hand went with an almost instinctive
inquiry to his jawbone again.
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