”
Her father declared there had been no difficulty. 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. "Her ladyship—" faltered the attendant. "You must take it to Sir Rowland
Trenchard's in Southampton Fields. It was easy to
imagine great power in such a man. Nor as I’ve to put up with a French spy in
my parlour—’
‘Peste, how you talk,’ interrupted Melusine impatiently, barely taking in his
complaints. Sheppard superior to her
station.
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