Her efforts were vain. Anything that drew attention to her must be avoided. Their very furniture had mysteriously a high-browed quality, and Mr. Lucy sized up the girl. She tried surreptitiously to reach her own dagger, in its cunning hiding place in her petticoat. CHAPTER XXXI. Suddenly the door of the flat opened and closed. She had been warned time and time again by Sebastian that fame would mean the end of her freedom, being hounded in to the next lifetime by vampire and power seekers. It is not possible for us to be on friendly terms with a young man who has been seen in a public place, having supper alone with your sister after midnight. For most of a long and fluctuating night she was fairly confident that she would find work; she knew herself to be strong, intelligent, and capable by the standards of most of the girls she knew. 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. But before the Grieg concerto was done, she knew that she was free.
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