His mother was a circus girl.

And his grandmother--an Italian--was divorced by Sir Beverley before they had been married two years." "Oh!" Avery emerged from her vagueness and turned towards him.

"Lady Evesham was Italian, was she?
That accounts for his appearance, doesn't it?
That air of the old Roman patrician about him; you must have noticed it ?" "He's handsome enough," admitted Tudor.
"Oh, very handsome," said Avery.

"I should say that for that type his face was almost faultless.

I wondered where he got it from.