4. The drunken beachcombers; the one-sided education; the utter loneliness of a
white child without playfellows, human or animal, without fairy stories, who for
days was left alone while the father visited neighbouring islands, these pictures
sank far below their actual importance. Getting pregnant in high school ended that
dream for her. 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. “You belong to me,” he said fiercely; “the marriage certificate is in my pocket. ‘I do not understand you. ”
“You are separated from your wife?”
“Yes, but do you know how?”
“Not exactly. ”
“But—This bolt from the blue! My God! Ann Veronica, you don’t understand. He’s riding down the drive. Further on, there were impressions
of bloody footsteps along the floor.
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