A beachcomber in embryo, and she had lent a hand through habit as much as through pity. 265 The madness crept around her like smoke under a door. She saw the moonlit waters, the black shadow of the proa, the moon-fire that ran down the far edge of the bellying sail, the silent natives: no sound except the slapping of the outrigger and the low sibilant murmur of water falling away from the sides—and the beating of her heart. Before he forced an entrance, Jack tried it, and, to his great surprise and delight, found it unfastened. She was working very steadily at the Advanced Course in Comparative Anatomy, wonderfully relieved to have her mind engaged upon one methodically developing theme in the place of the discursive uncertainties of the previous two months, and doing her utmost to keep right in the back of her mind and out of sight the facts, firstly, that she had achieved this haven of satisfactory activity by incurring a debt to Ramage of forty pounds, and, secondly, that her present position was necessarily temporary and her outlook quite uncertain. Her senses were prickled when she felt a new pair of eyes upon her. He started toward the dog with the idea of ejecting him, but Ruth intervened. “Come in.
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