“Every one raves about her,” Lady Angela continued. 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. Her father, her own father! She remembered now a verse from the Psalms her father had always been quoting; but now she recited it with perfect understanding. He stole his chance and thrust his hand towards hers. My thanks, by the by. You’ll end up dead, that’s what. ” “Why shouldn’t I go?” “It isn’t a suitable place; it isn’t a suitable gathering. It is only a matter of time before he presents himself to whoever has the deeds to Remenham House—a lawyer I presume—and claims that property for his wife’s. But, you see, she HAS to lie up. He talked with his manner gentle and kindly. And then came the vile experience of being forced and borne along the street to the police-station. “Would you wait for me?” Manning was silent for a space. She felt the softest touch caress her cheek, and a wave of tenderness engulfed Melusine. He displayed none of the airy optimism of their previous talk over the downland gate.
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