Lucy was surprised to hear that any party could happen on a week night, but the parents of the house in question were the rich absentee type. The room in which she sat was a portion of the garret, assigned, as we have just stated, by Mr. 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. “Why shouldn’t one face the facts of one’s self?” She stood up. Beneath the serene unconcern of Ann Veronica’s face was a boiling tumult. Standing on tiptoe, on a joint-stool, placed upon the bench, with his back to the door, and a clasp-knife in his hand, this youngster, instead of executing his appointed task, was occupied in carving his name upon a beam, overhead. Rubbishy novels and pernicious rascals. If he had nothing to tell her, she had nothing to ask. ‘Aha,’ grunted Gerald with satisfaction, squinting up at the two open shutters on the second floor. Meantime the spinsters sought the dining room where tea was being served. His literary instincts were reviving.
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