As soon, however, as the last solemn rites were over, and the remains of the unfortunate woman committed to their final resting-place in Willesden churchyard, his firmness completely deserted him, and he sank beneath the weight of his affliction. Any one less courageous than himself would have abandoned the attempt from a conviction of its utter hopelessness; but, though it might for a moment damp his ardour, it could not deter him. Part 4 MY DEAR VEE, he wrote. She closed the book that she had been pretending to read and gathered her black umbrella and her backpack, a childish accoutrement she despised. It—it is nothing,’ she said, although with a tremor in her voice. The winters were bitter here, they could have just as easily been frozen off. But as the mystery which surrounded Ruth fell away that which enveloped her father thickened. Then for a time she forgot the Fadden affair altogether. “I am going,” he said, “to be impertinent. The Ralphs and Mannings and Fortescues came down upon the raw inexperience, upon the blinking ignorance of the newcomer; and before her eyes were fairly open, before she knew what had happened, a new set of guides and controls, a new set of obligations and responsibilities and limitations, had replaced the old. Canton was something like a blind alley; unless you were native, you couldn't get anywhere except by returning to Hong-Kong and starting afresh. Hilary could not have suggested such a thing.
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