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Updated: June 25, 2025
Later Rupert went to Tom, who sat by an open window in his room and looked out on the moonlit stretch of avenue. The boy's heart was still beating fast, and, as the white light struck his face, it showed his eyes more like Delia Vanuxem's than they had ever been. Their darkness held just the look Tom remembered, but could never have described or explained to himself.
Sheba sat down upon his knee and put her arms round his neck, as she had done when she was ten years old. "I could live with you anywhere," she said. "The only thing I couldn't stand would be to have to live away from you." Tom laughed and kissed her. He laughed that he might smother a sigh. Rupert was standing near and looking at her with the eyes that were so like Delia Vanuxem's.
"Trod on Miss Vanuxem's dress and tore it off her back in the ballroom, did you?" he burst forth. "Made a fool of yourself and a bear-garden of the Delisle House ballroom! What were you trying to dance for? Leave that to men who can manage their limbs, and don't inflict yourself on women who are too high-bred to refuse to dance with a man who ought to be a gentleman. Stay at home, sir!
When the great thing that's that's the meaning of it all and the reason of it comes into her life, it ought to come as naturally as summer does. If her poor child of a mother Good Lord! Good Lord!" And here he sat in the moonlight, and Delia Vanuxem's son was looking at her with ardent, awakened young eyes.
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