I have been hearing--it is not mere airy tales one hears from lawyers about cases in Courts of Law.

Tighten your lips as you like; I say nothing to condemn or reflect on Mrs.
Lawrence Finchley.

I have had my eyes a little opened, that is all.
Oh, I know my niece Aminta, when it's a friend to stand by; but our position--thanks to your inscrutable lord and master--demands of us the utmost scrupulousness, or it soon becomes a whirl and scandal flying about, and those lawyers picking up and putting together.

I have had a difficulty to persuade them!...

and my own niece! whom I saw married at the British Embassy in Madrid, as I take good care to tell everybody; for it was my doing; I am the responsible person! and by an English Protestant clergyman, to all appearance able to walk erect in and out of any of these excellent new Life Assurance offices they are starting for the benefit of widows and orphans, and deceased within six days of the ceremony--if ceremony one may call the hasty affair in those foreign places.