’ ‘Marry you!’ He shot off the desk, such horror in his face that Melusine felt a little irritated. 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. But all that could be ascertained in the village was, that a man had ridden off a short time before in the direction of London. His voice when he spoke was almost fiercely assertive, but there was an undernote of nervousness.
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