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Yet she felt him near, and, as she did so, the soul-deep feeling with which she had spoken to the portrait fled.
It all rushed upon him the birthday night the crafty, insidious mockery through every bit of it, until everything to which he had held tottered about him, and goaded beyond all power to bear there came a slow, comprehending, soul-deep curse on the world and all that the world had done.
He released her then, and stepped back, standing tall and silent, as if he waited for her blast of scorn. It did not come. She was standing with hands pressed to her face, as if to cover some shame or sorrow, or ease the throbbing of a soul-deep pain. The sound of men and horses came from the corral. He stood, waiting for judgment. "Go now," she said, in a sad, small voice.
He watched with soul-deep gratitude the soft girlish curves of Hilda's body, the poise of her flower head, the piquant, half-wistful, half-childish set of her red lips, the clear starlike glimmer of her dusky eyes. It was all near to him; his. "Kiss me, dear," he said. She swayed to him again, deliciously graceful, deliciously unselfconscious, trusting, adorable.
She had tucked up her sleeves, baring her round white arms close to the shoulders, and as she looked steadily at him before answering his question she flung back the shining masses of her hair and began to braid it. Her fear for him was entirely gone. She was calm. And there was something in the manner of her quiet and soul-deep study of him that held back other words which he might have spoken.
Immensely relieved, he handed her the hat, saw her put it on with indifferent pulls and pats, and followed her to the door. At the top of the stairs he pushed by her with a laughing, "Here, let me go first. It's my job to lead." She drew aside, and as he passed her he caught her eyes, lighted with a soul-deep tenderness, the woman's look of surrender.
Their uncovered, purple-black hair glistened in the warm sunlight, while their roguish glances, from "soul-deep eyes of darkest night," were like sparks of electricity. Was it their normal mood, or did the presence of a curious stranger, himself on the qui vive to see everything, move them to just a bit of coquetry? A Mexican Watering Place. Delightful Climate. Aguas Calientes. Young Señoritas.
Yet she felt him near, and, as she did so, the soul-deep feeling with which she had spoken to the portrait fled.
Before their scrutiny, soul-deep, the other's faltered and fell. "You might help him, mightn't you, Fong Wu?" Mrs. Barrett repeated. An expression, curious, keen, and full of meaning, was the answer. Then, "I might if he " Fong Wu said, and paused. Past Mrs. Barrett, whose back was toward her husband, the latter had shot a warning glance. "Come, come, Edith," he cried irritably; "let's get home."
Obedience, in this sense of the word, is a sustained and soul-deep effort in which all the higher faculties of Man's being take part, an effort which is in some sort a voyage of discovery, the doing of the more obvious duty being always rewarded by the deepening of the doer's insight and the widening of his outlook, and by the consequent unveiling to him of the way in which he is to walk and the goal at which he is to aim.
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