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. But with the skill of a fencer he met
the blow and broke it, seizing the wrist. Then, there shall be laid upon your body as much iron, or stone
as you can bear, and more. ”
She shook her head. ‘Who’d believe me? And I’d have
to tell my part in it all, too.
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