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. She had turned round sideways, so as to look down into the fire. He leaned back in a low chair, and watched her graceful movements, the play of her white hands as she bent over some wonderful machine. His appearance excited the greatest astonishment and consternation amid the group. Edgeworth Bess, who passed for Sheppard's wife, was secured. In addition to the various business men, solicitors, civil servants, and widow ladies who lived in the Morningside Park Avenue, there was a certain family of alien sympathies and artistic quality, the Widgetts, with which Ann Veronica had become very friendly. Ann Veronica took off her jacket and sat down in the corner chair, and leaned forward to look into the great hazy warm brown cavity of the house, and Ramage placed his chair to sit beside her and near her, facing the stage. They turned the last corner, and almost immediately a man who had been standing there turned and struck Ennison a violent blow on the cheek. "Aye—to pretend to her that you don't care. “I was never at any such dinner, and I am quite sure that I do not know you. Faugh!” She took up the last morsel of roll, and held it delicately between her long slim fingers.
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