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. The fragrance of dryer sheets lay upon her like the snow that now drifted peacefully outside. Perhaps I ought to have let you order the dinner, but I think I got through it pretty well. "Not that I know of," replied the carpenter, who had in some degree recovered his confidence. “How odd that I should almost spring into your arms just on my doorstep!” she remarked gaily. “You don’t know him, Anna,” she said with a little shudder, “or you would not talk like that. She gave her a wink when John had turned to ask Mark if Lucy could ride home with them.
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