"Something worse, I fear," Wood replied. "That's it!"—eagerly. If it were but the question of his reason for marrying her, the solution would have been simple. Instead of English villas and cottages there were chalets and Italian-built houses shining white; there were lakes of emerald and sapphire and clustering castles, and such sweeps of hill and mountain, such shining uplands of snow, as she had never seen before. " CHAPTER XVIII. Before she put on her sun-helmet, she paused before the mirror. The Return 231 II. “I’m damned if I’ll believe it,” he muttered to himself savagely. Moreover, she claims that this whole enterprise of hers is purely for the purpose of marrying an Englishman. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. The small grey feathers of her exquisitely shaped fan waved gently backwards and forwards. . ” “And he accepted meekly?” “Practically. The young lady with frizzled hair, whom Brendon had pointed out to her as Miss Ellicot, leaned forward from her hostess’s side.
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