Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. ‘Dear me. “Just leave them with me for now, Clotilde. She may be
an infuriating little devil, but she is far from stupid. He came in with his hands in his trousers pockets and a general air of
depression in his bearing. Here it is. There was nothing in his
manner to suggest the misery of the preceding night. ”
She was in the bedroom by eleven. You may well say it's impossible! His Majesty's jail
of Newgate is admirably guarded, I must say. ‘When you’re my age, you’ll be just as
hardheaded.
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