"Your uncle must
protect you. ‘Will that be all, ma’am?’
‘Yes, yes. 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. Her courage and her presence of mind had alike deserted her. “I’m sorry. I am up to the ears in it all—
every moment I can spare. Ann Veronica tried to keep hold of a
complicated situation and not lose her head.
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