Besides, the sun had gone in and it looked like rain. Most of the vessels lying in the river were driven from their moorings, dashed tumultuously against each other, or blown ashore. To be free of outward distraction, he shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly, with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face; the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony; the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms, now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire. “I am only sorry that I did not ask you to go with me. “I will be off,” she declared. CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH THE COLLAPSE OF THE PENITENT Part 1 Spring had held back that year until the dawn of May, and then spring and summer came with a rush together. She romanticized, imagining a life on the High Seas. “I don’t mind, of course, your seeing her sometimes, still there are differences— differences in social atmospheres.
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