"Good night. That handsome, finely drawn face belonged to a soul with clean ideals. On the other hand the two young men who sat on either side of Anna were already throwing murderous glances at the newcomer. Only a few weeks ago there was a bloody battle on the bridge there between the soldiery and the local police. ‘She hasn’t said so, but I presume Valade had got hold of all the useful papers,’ Gerald went on. There was something holding women down, holding women back, and if it wasn’t exactly man-made law, man-made law was an aspect of it. “He has asked to see some one,” he whispered to the doctor. "I couldn't bear to see you in it. To be free of outward distraction, he shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly, with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face; the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony; the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms, now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire. She could almost smell her mother’s attar of white roses and lemon verbena with the memory of the story. "I suppose he'll be on his feet any day now.
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