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. We'll come back for that by and by, and the dressing-gown. The room was reeling, or was it that she was going to faint? She recovered herself with a supreme effort. Next to the receiver was a gang of housebreakers, laughing over their exploits, and planning fresh depredations; and next to the housebreakers came two gallant-looking gentlemen in long periwigs and riding-dresses, and equipped in all other respects for the road, with a roast fowl and a bottle of wine before them. Capes was an exceptionally fair man of two or three-and-thirty, so ruddily blond that it was a mercy he had escaped light eyelashes, and with a minor but by no means contemptible reputation of his own. ‘And me?’ ‘Oh, you’re mad because you wish to blow off my head. Not a bark could be discerned on the river, except those already mentioned. She goes out and comes home. He read "The Beachcombers" to McClintock that night after coffee; and when he had done, the old trader nodded. ’ ‘Who, Joan, who? Of whom do you speak?’ ‘Mrs Sindlesham. She backed away from him.
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