He had not been married three years when he was drowned in the Adriatic, no one ever knew how.

The young widow came back to Rome, to her father, and here shortly afterwards, in the shadow of Saint Peter's, her little girl was born.

It might have been supposed that Mrs.Light would marry again, and I know she had opportunities.

But she overreached herself.

She would take nothing less than a title and a fortune, and they were not forthcoming.