She backed away from him. ‘I am perfectly devoted to him, as well he knows. But how to avail himself of it was the question, for in his present garb he was sure to be recognised. It felt wonderful and golden to bask in the sunlight of their approval, even if their approval was fickle and dangerous. He would have to make sure of her silence. 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. Capes joined the students at tea, and displayed himself in an impish mood that sometimes possessed him. CHAPTER XX. The soldiers! They must not find her here. “And aren’t there fees to pay at the Imperial College?” her aunt was saying—a disagreeable question. “Then there was a motor accident only an hour or so after this ceremony, and Hill was reported to be killed. ’ A reluctant laugh escaped him. ’ ‘Yes, but if it is only we that know, it is of no use at all to me. Turning to Melusine, he grabbed both her wrists and held her away from him, as if afraid that she might go for him. He felt his heart beat faster and faster—his self-restraint slipping away.
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