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. She tried to imagine the collective effect of the Fadden Ball; she had never seen a fancy-dress gathering in her life. She had been to San Francisco, and what I learned about the world was from her. Old thoughts, old feelings, old faces, and old scenes have returned to me, and I have fancied myself happy,—as happy as I am now. ” She smiled grimly at the recollection of that lunch—tea and roll at a cheap café. “Indeed,” she said, “I would not. Then go and fetch this daughter of yourn. “We are the music and you are the instrument,” she said; “we are verse and you are prose. And how could I come home—when he locks me in rooms and all that?” “I do wish this wasn’t going on,” said Miss Stanley, after a pause. Spurlock (himself verging upon the hysterical) welcomed the diversion. " "Are you man, or fiend?" exclaimed Trenchard, staring at the stranger, as he concluded his narration.
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