19/49 Clever head, rather! A plain, hard nature, with no depths in it. Is that his wife, with the Swiss bonnet ?" "His wife! Why, that is a Swiss girl, the daughter of a guide at Chamounix, who nursed Marian when she sprained her ankle. Mr.Conolly is not married." "I thought men of his stamp always married early." "No. He is engaged, and engaged to a lady of very good position." "He owes that to the diseased craving of modern women for notoriety of any sort. What an admirable photograph of Marian! I never saw it before. |