12/17 We get it through the Warwick-Howards on my mother's side." "Then, of course, there can't be any objection to it. But when one knows a person's opinion of frivolity, always to be thought frivolous by the person is hard to bear. Awfully." And if my expression, as I gazed past this Englishman at Vesuvius, was one of sad resignation, there was nothing in the situation to exhilarate anybody. The moonlight enabled me to see it quite clearly. "Pray, Miss Wick," he said, "do not think that. |