"It would avail him little if he did," replied Kneebone. Why? Love was a word of God's, and yet her father had denied it—denied it to the Book, denied it to his own flesh and blood. ‘What did you do with the portrait then? Not that I suppose it is much use any longer. CHAPTER VII The astonishing collapse of Spurlock created a tableau of short duration. When she came to school on Friday, she almost tripped twice going up the stairs. And in these crowded four weeks, what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows, only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had plucked a bitter truth—she was alone. If it were but the question of his reason for marrying her, the solution would have been simple. The change will come to-day. 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. Trodger was lying in wait at the bottom of the narrow stairs. I don't know what you have done; I don't want to know now.
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