I had hardly bettered the story given to me when I related it to Oscar who used it almost immediately with great effect.

Dedicatory words are usually as flattering as epitaphs; those of "An Ideal Husband" run: TO FRANK HARRIS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE TO HIS POWER AND DISTINCTION AS AN ARTIST HIS CHIVALRY AND NOBILITY AS A FRIEND MRS.

WILDE'S EPITAPH (See page 447) An evil fate seems to have pursued even Oscar's wife.

She died in Genoa and was buried in the corner of the Campo Santo set apart for Protestants.

This is what one reads on her tombstone: CONSTANCE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE HORATIO LLOYD, Q.C.
BORN -- -- DIED ---- No reference to her marriage or to the famous man who was the father of her two sons.
The irony of chance wills it that the late Horatio Lloyd, Q.C., had been more than suspected of sexual viciousness: cfr.