“But if you had?” she said. “My dear,” the letter ran, “I have to tell you that your sister Gwen has offended
your father very much. She was so
interested, and this was such a relief from the trudging anxiety of her search for
work, that she went on for a whole week as if she was still living at home. Ramage looked at her for a long and discriminating interval without speaking. Then he hovered undecidedly for some seconds
with his hands in his pockets and his mouth puckered to a whistle before he
turned to go home by the Avenue. We close the chapter. No one spoke, and she
was impelled to flounder on. She made a step forward. I would
have liked to know. I dare not reflect upon the effect that her son's fate,—if the efforts
to save him are ineffectual,—may have upon her enfeebled frame, and still
worse upon her mind. "
"You hear that," whispered Jack. "
"Hadn't you better hold a moment's parley with the gentlemen before proceeding
to extremities?" suggested Jonathan.
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