Of course her people will never let her marry, but she is not, I fancy, the sort of young woman to whom wedded bliss is essential.

Naturally, all this has been kept from her.

There are not many people who know of it.

I am one, because I knew her mother both before and after her marriage, being a young subaltern at the time and stationed at the very place where the tragedy occurred.

Wyndham is another, being the _protege_ of Kersley Whitton to whom the girl's mother was engaged and who was the first to discover the fatal tendency.