She did not open the Bible but laid it on the edge of the bed, knelt and rested her forehead upon the worn leather cover. ‘Oh, the Frenchie. She had been to San Francisco, and what I learned about the world was from her. Why? While the front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?” His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some secret or forbidden or impossible lover. Age is set, impervious to innovations. “I have a special surprise for you, Lucia. Single pearls— Lord knows where they come from!—are always turning up, some of them of fine lustre; but I never set eyes on them. "There's a guinea to drink our health," she added, slipping a piece of money into his hand. Already he was dramatizing Ruth, involving her, now in some pearl thieving adventure, now in some impossible tale of a white goddess.
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