Part of it was anyhow.

There was an American sitting behind Jane and me--such a romantic-looking man, with coal-black hair and eyes.

Josie Pye says he is a distinguished artist, and that her mother's cousin in Boston is married to a man that used to go to school with him.

Well, we heard him say--didn't we, Jane?
--'Who is that girl on the platform with the splendid Titian hair?
She has a face I should like to paint.' There now, Anne.

But what does Titian hair mean ?" "Being interpreted it means plain red, I guess," laughed Anne.