Nobody would believe, unless they had seen her in it, how very loud black can be.

I used to think widows ought to wear it because it kept them from being noticed, but on Florrie it is the most conspicuous thing you ever imagined--as Cousin Jimmy says it simply makes her blaze, and you know how striking she always was anyway.

I am sure I should think it would be embarrassing for her to go in the street in New York where nobody knows that she is really a lady--or at least that she was born a lady on her father's side--and this reminds me--( I declare I ramble on so I can never remember what I started to say)--but this reminds me that she has just been in to tell Jane that she is going to New York to take an apartment somewhere downtown; she told me the street and the number, but I have forgotten both of them.

Jane says she looks more beautiful than ever after her last tragic experience (though she doesn't seem to think it tragic at all), but I was brought up to believe that a divorced woman, even if she is in the right, ought to live in a retired way and show that she feels her position.

Now, I saw Florrie for a minute as she was going out and she ran on like a girl of sixteen--you would think from her talk that she is not a bit sensitive about the unfortunate situation she is in.