"It's funny, isn't it, how he made people respect him before they knew who he was ?" "He would make Satan stand up and take off his hat, if he paid Hades a visit," said Mrs.Tynan admiringly.

"Anybody'd do anything for him." Kitty eyed her mother closely.

There was a strange, far-away, brooding look in Mrs.Tynan's eyes, and she seemed for a moment lost in thought.
"You're in love with him," said Kitty sharply.
"I was, in a way," answered her mother frankly.

"I was, in a way, a kind of way, till I knew he was married.

But it didn't mean anything.