” Then a burst of applause. 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. “It’s no sort of good, Ann Veronica, pretending one does believe when one
doesn’t. ‘I—I mean, she were—’
‘Pretty as a picture?’ suggested Gerald. If only this man had
been her father! The world would have meant nothing; the island would have
been wide enough. ”
“I can spare it,” Anna answered suavely. “You seem to have
come from Miss Pellissier’s rooms. She acted as her
mother had taught her to.
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