She looked round wildly, as if seeking some source of help, as the boots halted at the front door and the shouting intensified. 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. "Who's there?—Pshaw! it's only the wind. “That beast of a fellow is certain to be hanging about. He could not contain his satisfaction, but chuckled, and rubbed his hands with delight. “I’m glad you’re all right,” he said, “because we want you to do us a favour. But once he had steered the lady down the hall and along a passage to a window seat at the end, he abandoned the subject of society. ’ ‘Don’t need you to tell me that, Prudence Sindlesham,’ barked the old man, his glance snapping at her briefly, before resuming his study of Melusine, who, to Gerald’s intense admiration, was standing before him, glaring and stiff with defiance. It is so ridiculous.
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