Most of
the girls she had known bored her. They were gushing creatures with a
passion for sharing and imparting secrets, and Ruth's cool reserve had
alienated her from them.
When she married she dropped out. The romance of her wedding gave
people something to talk about for a few days, and then she was
forgotten.
And so it came about that she had her desire and was able practically
to monopolize Kirk. He and she and William Bannister lived in a kind of
hermit's cell for three and enjoyed this highly unnatural state of
things enormously. Life had never seemed so full either to Kirk or
herself. There was always something to do, something to think about,
something to look forward to, if it was only a visit to a theatre or
the inspection of William Bannister's bath.
Chapter XI
Stung to Action
It was in the third year of the White Hope's life that the placid
evenness of Kirk's existence began to be troubled. The orderly
procession of the days was broken by happenings of unusual importance,
one at least of them extraordinarily unpleasant. This was the failure
of a certain stock in which nearly half of Kirk's patrimony was
invested, that capital which had always seemed to him as solid a part
of life as the asphalt on which he walked, as unchangeable a part of
nature as the air he breathed.
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