Molly Gaverick was an uncertain correspondent, and, no doubt, Joan Gildea and Rosamond Tallant, if they had known of the event, had thought it wiser, in writing to her, to suppress the news.

For a moment, Lady Bridget sat meditating, and all the blood seemed to rush from her brain to her heart--she could almost hear her heart pounding.

Then she went on again with Lady Gaverick's letter.
'It was a motor accident--nothing serious at the time, but the baby was born prematurely, and she lingered a week or two, and then died.

I must do him the justice to say that he seemed to feel her death very much.
It looked as though, after all, the marriage had been quite a success.
Her money gave him a lift and they were going out a good deal in the political set.

She left her quarter of a million to him, ABSOLUTELY.