He had started for Africa, to make a fortune for himself, but the boat was wrecked in a storm and every one on board was lost." "And his family, what of them ?" queried the attorney.
"He had no children, and no one ever knew what became of his wife.
The Mainwarings are a very prosaic family; that is the only bit of romance in their history; but I always enjoyed that, except that it ended so sadly, and I always admired Harold Mainwaring.

I would like to meet such a man as he." "Why, I should say there was a romance in progress at present in the Mainwaring family," said Mr.Whitney, smiling.
"What! Hugh and Edith Thornton ?" She laughed again, a wonderfully musical, rippling laugh, the attorney thought.

"Oh, there is no more romance there than there is in that marble," and she pointed to a beautiful Cupid and Psyche embracing each other in the centre of a mass of brilliant geraniums and coleas.

"They have been engaged ever since their days of long dresses and highchairs,--another of Ralph Mainwaring's schemes! You know Edith is Hugh's cousin, an only child, and her father is immensely rich! Oh, no; if I ever have a romance of my own, it must spring right up spontaneously, and grow in spite of all opposition.

Not one of the sort that has been fostered in a hot-house until its life is nearly stifled out of it." Mr.Whitney glanced in admiration at the fair English face beside him glowing with physical and intellectual beauty.