There was just a minute’s hesitation before they gave her a
room. 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. If you met her you would, I am certain, think
her as fine as I do. “I’ve heard some
even more entertaining news from the Orchestra
grapevine too. She wondered if the second part
would overcome his objections? Several times the words had rushed to her
tongue, to find her tongue paralysed. She had maintained
a B in each subject except History, which she occasionally
felt compelled to strive for A’s in, considering she had
lived through most of it.
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