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. "
Nor was this all. ’
The lodgekeeper had been in fine fettle by the time Major Alderley had
produced his investigatory force at the gates. I would not
have him know—now—for the world. Good-bye aunt. "
"What is this to me, Sir?" said Trenchard, cutting him short. But this was but a momentary gleam of personal application, and at this time
she followed it up no further.
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