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. Gentlemen,—Mr. Hist!’ he added, as he turned his head
and noticed Alderley’s glance. "
"Well, imagination beats me!"
"It's something Ruth saw. The latter has,
since, been induced to unite herself to Sir Cecil, on terms originating with her
brother, and which, however strange and unprecedented, were acquiesced in by
the suitor. When I gave him
an invitation to supper, I little thought he'd accept it. “Happened! Oh, many things,” she declared indolently. It was common name, so I was thrown off the
scent. ”
Ennison nodded.
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