She was conscious of a ceaseless undercurrent of sound—the guttural Chinese tongue. He did not play golf, but took his exercise on horseback, which was also unsympathetic. It was an intimate smell, the unmistakable scent of him and another woman. There was a short, red-faced, resolute youth who inherited an authoritative attitude upon bacteriology from his father; a Japanese student of unassuming manners who drew beautifully and had an imperfect knowledge of English; and a dark, unwashed Scotchman with complicated spectacles, who would come every morning as a sort of volunteer supplementary demonstrator, look very closely at her work and her, tell her that her dissections were “fairish,” or “very fairish indeed,” or “high above the normal female standard,” hover as if for some outbreak of passionate gratitude and with admiring retrospects that made the facetted spectacles gleam like diamonds, return to his own place. There were neither texts nor rubbish on the walls, but only a stirring version of Belshazzar’s feast, a steel engraving in the early Victorian manner that had some satisfactory blacks. He was beginning to think about her inordinately. Ruth hugged the envelope and McClintock, with the end of a burnt match, drew a cabalistic sign. .
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