” Every one became tremendously animated when they heard that Ann Veronica had failed them because she had been, as she expressed it, “locked in. ” “Has my sister been unkind to you?” “The family,” he declared, “has not treated me with consideration. He confided to me that he felt trapped in his marriage, that he was being ruined by fate. She elected to go to prison. Yet, here she was, in the ancient Chinese city, weaving in and out of the narrow streets some scarcely wide enough for two men to walk abreast, streets that boiled and eddied with yellow human beings, who worshipped strange gods, ate strange foods, and diffused strange suffocating smells. She doubted how she stood toward him and what the restrained gleam of his face might signify. 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. Nothing, however, could be discerned, except the crumbling brickwork. 216 “Please, get dressed. Your father has forbidden you to go!’” “Well?” “She said, ‘I hate being horrid to you and father, but I feel it my duty to go to that ball!’” “Felt it her duty!” “‘Very well,’ I said, ‘then I wash my hands of the whole business.
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