Her mouth lolled open and
drool seeped down one corner. Beyond was an avenue of tall poplars that rose like
columns, disappearing into undulating hills that were
black with sleeping houses and fertile soil. "Let me see the earth thrown over her," implored Jack; "and take me where you
please. ”
He kissed her, and handed her into the carriage. 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. She shot a sudden glance at him. He had assumed that her leaving home was the point at issue, that
everything turned on that, and that the sole alternative was obedience, and she
had fallen in with that assumption until rebellion seemed a sacred principle. The
music took hold of her slowly as her eyes wandered from the indistinct still
ranks of the audience to the little busy orchestra with its quivering violins, its
methodical movements of brown and silver instruments, its brightly lit scores
and shaded lights. "You have forgotten your knife, Mr.
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