“Shari told me. 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. It would be the culmination of her plan. To get behind that impenetrable curtain, to learn why she hated her island. And she—’ ‘She!’ interrupted the young lady crossly. ‘I should never have told you. To preserve herself, however, from destitution, or what she considered worse, she wedded a journeyman carpenter, named Sheppard. Ah Cum made a movement as though to follow, but reconsidered. “You need have no further trouble. If the Wastrel had not turned the instant he did, the ball would have missed him; as it was he turned directly into its path. It was hard to part with romance, but she had never thirsted so keenly to go on with her University work in her life as she did that day. If you knew your aunt were alive, if she expected you, that would be different. It probably still wouldn’t help. Capes most trying.
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