She broke in passionately. "You know it's all right, Dr. Chris—you've trusted me?"
"Absolutely," he said gravely. "But it simply is that Roddy mustn't be there imagining things, waiting, wondering.... Perhaps he won't ask you—Perhaps he will—But, anyway, tell him—tell him at once everything...."
The bell rang, he went across to her, kissed her, and then went downstairs.
She stood there waiting, without moving except to strip off, very slowly, her black gloves. Her eyes were fixed upon the door.
She heard the door downstairs open, the stumbling steps; once she caught the Duchess's voice and at that she drew in her breath. Then the hall door closed, but, for a long time afterwards, she stood there without moving.
CHAPTER III
RODDY MOVES
"... But the Red Dwarf, although as malevolent as possible, found that his ill-temper had no effect against true love, which always won in the end, even with quite stupid people."
Grimm's Fairy Tales.