Unless there was some real metal in the young fool, some hidden strength with which to breast the current, Ruth would become a millstone around his neck and soon he would become to her an object of pity and contempt. Canton was something like a blind alley; unless you were native, you couldn't get anywhere except by returning to Hong-Kong and starting afresh. It was denied him, for as he closed his eyes—though but for an instant—the whole scene of his former visit to the place rose before him. If only he had known it, sympathy was almost entirely with him. It takes too many years to climb even a step in the social ladder. "But the past is irremediable, and I did not come hither to exculpate myself, I came to save your life," he added, turning to Thames. Near the door stood a pile of deal planks, behind which the carpenter ensconced himself in order to reconnoitre, unobserved, the proceedings of his idle apprentice. “My sister,” she murmured, “is so independent. Her relationship with John had made her the object of desire for scores of teenage boys who had dared not previously think of her in such a way. " "What means this idle boasting, villain?" said Thames. ‘That little kiss cost him his sanctuary, my girl, and don’t you forget it. Then we can loiter and gossip to our heart’s content. Plote was sleeping or deaf.
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