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. "'A wonderful fact to reflect
upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and
mystery to every other. It did not matter in the least what name the young fellow
was travelling under; all James Boyle O'Higgins wanted was the letter H.
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