Lucia dismissed the rumors, as it was not likely an archbishop would renege on his duties to become her personal doctor. “I”—he seemed to have a difficulty with the word—“I love you. She ought to have been disposed to faint and scream at all these happenings; she ought to have maintained a front of outraged dignity to veil the sinking of her heart. The Dawn Pearl! To be with her constantly, with no diversions to serve as barricades! Damn McClintock for putting this thought in his head—that Ruth loved him! He flung himself upon the beach, face downward, his outflung hands digging into the sand: which was oddly like his problem—he could not grip it. It was the largest room in the house, which was why it had been given over to the main business of the convent as a house of God. Girls who had envied her former position as John’s amour passed no opportunity to utter cryptic remarks as she sat in Study Hall, walked down hallways, or rinsed her hands in the bathroom. “Accident! She shot me,” he muttered. But when she spoke her lips quivered, and they came. Aware that they would not be allowed to remain long unmolested, the New Minters conducted themselves so outrageously, and with such extraordinary insolence, that measures were at this time being taken for their effectual suppression. After all, it came to him suddenly as a harsh discovery that she might be in a sense regarded as grownup.
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