” Elizabeth, the parlormaid, kept
coming in to hand vegetables whenever there seemed a chance of Ann Veronica
asking for an interview. One glance through the window at that picturesque
head had been sufficient. When he reached the happy ending, he waited. ‘Then it is that you will have pity? Here we have
come, we poor, for aid. 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.
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