6/24 By Heaven, Blanche! you should have seen her as she stood there brandishing that dagger aloft and defying me! I never saw anything so transcendently beautiful!" Mrs.Walraven's scornful upper lip curled. Your married life is likely to be a happy one, my dear Guy!" "Oh!" Dr.Guy aspirated, "if she only were my wife! Blanche, I would give all I possess on earth to know who that man is!" "Indeed!" said Mme. "Then I think I can tell you: it was Hugh Ingelow." "Blanche!" "I have no positive knowledge, you see, of the fact," went on the lady, adjusting her regal robes, "but an inward prescience tells me so. I don't think she will hardly be tried for bigamy. |