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. “I wonder,” he said, and went off at a tangent. She read the policeman’s rueful glance when she caught his refection in his rearview mirror. Lucy snatched it up and put it in her pack. She went past three keenly observant and ostentatiously preoccupied waiters down the thickcarpeted staircase and out of the Hotel Rococo, that remarkable laboratory of relationships, past a tall porter in blue and crimson, into a cool, clear night. He rather liked the "sir"; it signified both gratefulness and the chastened spirit. But when she was thinking it over in her room that evening vague and baffling doubts came drifting across this conviction. I suppose you have come to see your granddaughter. Ann Veronica brought her luggage in a cab from the hotel; she tipped the hotel porter sixpence and overpaid the cabman eighteenpence, unpacked some of her books and possessions, and so made the room a little homelike, and then sat down in a by no means uncomfortable arm-chair before the fire. He turned the wheel carefully as he touched her neck with the other, threading her soft curls in between his slim fingers. “What are you two whispering about?” She turned towards Martin.
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