“Yeah, I know. The letter began: “MY DEAREST GIRL,—I cannot let you do this foolish thing—” She crumpled notes and letter together in her hand, and then with a passionate gesture flung them into the fire. Briefly, with a careless wave towards the couple, the comtesse presented them as Monsieur and Madame Valade. It was not a cambric curtain Ruth had drawn across that part of her life: it was of iron. It reverberated in the silence. She read the policeman’s rueful glance when she caught his refection in his rearview mirror. ‘But for my dowry, what else? One cannot expect that an Englishman will marry any jeune demoiselle without a dowry. I can be a gentleman.
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