riously ill. She wanted to see me. I started at once for London and found matters better than I expected, but still rather serious. I st

ce: Mrs. Summer, who had just come back from the Lakes. I know little about her. I can only guess at her appearance. I know that s

he is a friend of Miss Brandon's.

as done her suc

tter than she did when she arrived," but

t tired of coming he

Miss Brandon hated L

have known he

er life. Ever si

t her fathe

in an old house in the south of Ireland. He was not really Irish. He had been a soldier. He played picquet with Jean every evening. He went up to London two mo

ouse in Bedford Square. I think there were illegitimate children. In Ireland he entertaine

as not a Radica

d Miss Brandon c

money-the want of it-made the marriage imposs

f the fath

have left him. She c

her like the

him as quite impossible, quite

have thought anyone else

said. "It was p

ad happened to

was too expensive. He went out to the Colon

married?"

never looked at anyone else. He was supposed, at one time,

did not b

faithful; faithful and constant. You see, Jean isn't an ordinary girl. If one once loved her i

pt yo

autiful now, at le

one told

ught so. Telling wou

s someo

nlikely she would ever meet anyone

was arranged beforehand, and the momentous entrance and the scèn

ht to myself: "She knows about Krani

" she said. "Jean is-well-there is no one like

hought she would n

he will be right for the wrong reasons. Sometimes the peopl

he thought Rudd

t of all about Netty Lennox. Perhaps his instincts as an artist are right. I think people's books are sometimes written by someone else,

her she like

they were written by a familiar spiri

out Miss Brandon, however wrong he might be a

ght turn out to be right in some ways about Jean Brandon, and in some ways about a h

"he is imaginative

at he writes by instinc

there. He explained to the actress what he wanted done. She said: "Yes, I see this, and this, and this." Everything she said was terribly wide of the mark, the oppos

aid, "that Mr. R

ummer if she k

e said. "What do yo

I lik

and easy to get o

all Ru

he's quite like all Russians, at lea

the Russians on

It's a pity they have such

Kranitski did n

had just recovered than

ion that he was capable of being very ha

nerally very happy, too," she said

I sug

ag

saw often enough. He gave me the impression of a person capable of solid happin

e said, "only one doesn't know qu

that his life had not been one

gre

little about

is miserable. He ought to mar

n are so far stronger and braver than men; and that those who don't marry are sometimes those who are strong enough to face life

t Kranitski would be strong

said, "but then, I

?" I asked. "Are there some women who

to do either. In either case lif

ss Brandon would be happi

e married the right person, the m

d to marry," I said, "neces

or her, whatever the draw

they were marrying the right person, and y

vented, all the same," she said, "and if

better,

hen turn out so ve

present Miss Brandon's life

ht be a tragedy. Supposing she married s

ld mind,

ld mind

d in the long run. If she wanted a marriage of a d

nted in the long run, it often came either too late or not quite at the moment when one wan

u think it is no us

e said, "no

e a pes

ugh to have n

ther people to

rld, and that when you see someone who might be happy

I s

er people to

she said. "Quite dr

rs. Lennox came

Casino. I can't think what has happened to Jean. I have been looki