2/35 It doesn't balance well, either. "It is a very exclusive name, a family name. My mother's paternal grandmother was a Benis." Desire was not attending. "Your nickname, too, is odd," she mused. "How on earth could anyone make 'Beans' out of 'Benis Hamilton ?'" "Very easily--but how did you know that anyone had ?" "Oh, from a touching inscription on one of your books, 'To Beans--from Bones.'" "Well--there's a whole history in that. |