She knew it. ’ ‘Compel me? You do not know me, monsieur. I set myself to find employment. ’ ‘For God’s sake,’ protested his junior. It was still too dark for reading, but she could see well enough to note the number of the last page—fifty-six. Love … to take her in his arms and to comfort her: and then to add to her cup of bitterness the knowledge that her husband was a thief! For himself he did not care; God could continue to grind and pulverize him; but to add another grain to the evil he had already wrought upon Ruth was unthinkable. "I thought I heard a scream. It was still raining heavily, and profoundly dark.