”
“My message is urgent,” he said firmly. Then came
the great day. “Wise! Kind! What mockery words are! I came because I had to. And it’s gorgeous!”
“Glorious!” said Ann Veronica. For the first time he seemed to wonder what it might be that she had to
confess. ‘We may have to,’ Gerald answered thoughtfully, staring at the window to one
side. 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. The door was closed—
locked,—and the pair were heard descending the stairs. When she reflected that Mr. “I have not the least
idea who he is. Any natural fineness would be numbed by drink. ‘Yes, for there were too many females for the vicomte to make me a dowry. He went on munching his water-chestnuts, and stared at the skyline.
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