A phase of mental activity that men called courage: to summon at will this
energy which barred the ingress of the long cold fingers of fear, which cleared
the throat of stuffiness and kept the glance level and ever forward. She
looked at me as though I were some unclean thing, as though my soul were
weighted with every sin in the calendar. She wondered even at this late
day how she had been able to hold her maddening curiosity in check. "
But the caution came too late. White’s boarding-house in Russell Square. The atmosphere at dinner
was not propitious. 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. I must leave England to-night. ‘Oh, dearie me, I wish I’d never told you anything about it,’ lamented the nun,
moving to the only chair the vestry possessed and sinking down into it. ‘Madame, I trust I see you well?’
‘Merci. Gerald
at once rid himself of his own glass and leapt to her assistance.
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