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. “Only married a few months ago and lived out at Hampstead. But such was the violence of his grief,—such the compunction he exhibited, that all but one looked on with an eye of compassion. So the young fool had not told her! McClintock had suspected as much. Flattened flowers aren’t for the likes of us. The dog-fox cannot be far off, since the cub is found. " Then he became merciful. She tipped his mouth towards her own and kissed him. For a time she looked at no more apartments, and walked through gaunt and ill-cleaned streets, through the sordid under side of life, perplexed and troubled, ashamed of her previous obtuseness.
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