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. ’ Obediently, Gerald rose and walked to the other end of the parlour. Standing on tiptoe, on a joint-stool, placed upon the bench, with his back to the door, and a clasp-knife in his hand, this youngster, instead of executing his appointed task, was occupied in carving his name upon a beam, overhead. ’ Pierced to the heart by the poignancy of this utterance, Gerald could neither move nor speak. But before he could say anything, the vehicle rolled to a halt. It was a serene and charming evening, and twilight was gently stealing over the face of the country. The work of plunder over, that of destruction commenced. ‘Eh bien, you are not like Leonardo. But for now, I’d like to turn in, if you don’t mind.
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